It would be considered to be the safest end of the spectrum.  

While the market can go up or down in either investment, Real Estate is the only one of the two that offers income opportunities through rental income, that stocks don't, and can often help ride out the storm of market fluxes.Also, the Greater Phoenix market (that includes Scottsdale) historically nets 65K+ Californians per year. 

The ROW @ Dietz Elkhorn is a 27 duplex community between San Antonio and Boerne.

Quote from @Jokari Trueheart: HI, almost 11 months ago I purchased 3 duplexes and I borrowed the funds from my personal residence which I took out a equity agreement for the down payment on the investment property, great idea at the time because I have 10 years to pay it off and theres no payment requirement, but , I learned more about the consequence that it takes a large chunk of my equity the longer I take to pay it back, so my goal was to refi cash out the investment property to pay it back but I don't think theres enough equity yet to pull the full $106k needed, I only borrowed $88k but with the equity percentage for one year i'm paying about $18k in equity on top of the amount I borrowed if I pay it off in year one, so I need this paid off ASAP before it increases more.

It's always been about digging through the coal to find the diamonds.  

The deal has to make sense and you really need to know the comps to make sure your investment is going to actually make money.

Hi Joshua and welcome to the forums.

I'd be happy to visit about the market.  

I've also seen the extra space used to make a toy train set up for HO gage trains.  

As an investor-only agent in the Boston area, I'm looking at the market nearly every day and analyzing deals for clients.