It had been sitting on the market for a long time and the sellers were willing to drop the price significantly.

Also I'd say the first step before you get too far is sit down with a great loan officer and let them run your credit and look at your tax returns and assets and come up with the best gameplan for your situation. 

Every city is different, PLEASE get yourself to a RE meeting, and do NOT try and do all this from books and sitting online, it will not end well. 

How do those sales sit within each concepts rankings?

Buying stocks and just letting money sit in a high yield savings account is much more passive than any type of rental property.

Cape Coral has 425 Homes that closed in September alone and homes only sit on the market for 62 days on average.My advice was to use the land to build a home to increase the potential profit and speed up the sale time.  

Hi BP community,I am fairly new to syndications and would love someone seasoned and experienced in syndication world to sit down with me and go over the numbers.

Anyone sitting on the sidelines is probably missing opportunities.

My property is set in a small neighborhood in a quiet lake town. 

Ormond Beach for instance - properties that would have been snatched up by STR investors are sitting on the market with price drop after price drop due to zoning crack downs..