Just buy a couple deals every year for the next 10 years. 

I just do not want to have to move yet- just personal preference.

Personally, I don't ever want to bother with individual notes (due to both the hassle and increased risk) and prefer the convenience and diversification of a fund of many notes.

I'd just prefer to be on water or at least have a water view.

We will live in one of the units and rent out the other(s).I became extremely interested in real estate investing in 2023, and with the help of my dad I actually purchased an out of state single-family investment property in Northwest Arkansas that is set to close in a couple weeks.

I mostly work in the retail medical space for Urgent Cares around the country but there can sometimes be some med office overlap there, and we are shopping more of it for an addiction treatment project we are working on in a couple states so I see more and more of it come across my desk.  

If you don't need the 20k for the next couple of months and you have low risk tolerance, it would be safer to use cash.

I know there is a ton of information here which I will scour to get lots of info, but my wife and I are purchasing a home to use as a short term rental/place for my mom and dad to stay a couple months out of the year.  

It’s worth mentioning that while many people prefer Booking.com for its convenience and reliability, this doesn’t mean that other platforms cannot offer the same level of service.

But in my experiences here the couple times I have seen people pursue adding a second story the cost either was so high that the project died out or in the other case it made more sense to demolish everything but literally one wall of the existing one story and then basically build a new two story house around it.