I'd highly consider index funds (takes zero mental bandwidth) over real estate (takes mental bandwidth and includes people into the equation) and continuing with E-commerce.

You can either aim for a higher initial return or prioritize high appreciation and rent growth.

GC's just have a very hard time with this waiting mentality because their guys have to be paid weekly.

Provide value and have a mentality of wanting to hep others and people will naturally flock to you and want to help you succeed.

Especially when your family is ALL the "get a job and work your whole life for someone else" mentality.

I have found this site very useful to get a pulse on the school districts:https://www.niche.com/k12/search/best-schools/ Interesting... so are you saying don't even consider great high schools or simply prioritize great elementary schools over great high schools when researching market/submarkets? 

Prioritization between yield vs. total return?     

I should have had a better prioritized plan for remodeling so that I could have been living there sooner while remodeling.

This mentality finally made sense to me after reading Rich Dad Poor Dad.. 

This is why practically everyone who has ever been raised broke and yet has managed to scrape some money together in their lives dislikes the lottery and the mentality of people who play regularly, to say nothing of the vermin in office who think it's good public policy.