Quote from @Milena Garcia: this sale I hope is all done after 2 months..

If you plan renting out this property, that cost recovery comes from cash flow (equity doesn't count). 

Not agents trying to sell you something.

Airbnb people have been discount seekers. try not to go by what you have heard,  but try it on one of your properties  and give it a few months  at a higher rate. 

Hence why WB said index fund, sure if ya got a few hundred mill - billion+ yeah, could you imagine trying to sort out deploying a billion dollars into real estate, yikes, what a headache. 

A couple of assumptions I see here stand out to me.

While there are great wholesalers out there (not dissing the wholesale community per se), they are not in this for you. 

Many stockbrokers and insurance salesmen are not fiduciaries. 

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