I am on the crossroads of just selling everything and moving into REITS, Index funds or dividend investing now that markets are low. 

My goal is to use a combination of real estate and index fund investing to achieve FI. 

, my Index Funds have done extremely well.

I used my own capital, selling a few index funds to finance the deal.

Otherwise, just put money in index funds for those easy 7% returns.

Otherwise, I might as well dump it into an index fund and forget about it for 15 years.The cash flow issue is a bit more problematic in this area or at least it has been for me.

I decided to dive in on Credit cards, Index stock investing, raising my credit score, and creating a retirement account at 20 all simultaneously, and have grown from there.

I've been tracking every dollar in and out of my REI activities for the past few years and decided to back-test the numbers to answer the question: What if I would have put all those investment dollars into a super passive, super low cost index fund such as SPY?

Unless she brings something to the table in terms of REI expertise like a background as an agent, property manager, rehabber, or has the ability to find discounted off market deals or is at least super sharp and really passionate about a starting a new career in REI or something, I don’t see any reason why RE would be a better option than speaking to Vanguard and parking it in a high yield dividend index fund, if it isn’t already in something similar.

I believe Zillow has a county level Home Price Index.