Trying to time the RE market is like trying to time the stock market. 

I am about to get some cash from selling a home and have mutiple stock options vesting soon.

He also got me started on some books on stocks and that's fine as a long term investment but I still needed to make money to keep feeding in to them for retirement.

(b)(1) The three-year period leading to a presumption of abandonment of stock or another intangible ownership interest in a business association, the existence of which is evidenced by records available to the association, commences on the first date that either a sum payable as a result of the ownership interest is unclaimed by the owner or a communication to the owner is returned undelivered by the United States Postal Service.(2) The running of the three-year period of abandonment ceases immediately on the exercise of an act of ownership interest or sum payable or a communication with the association as evidenced by a memorandum or other record on file with the association or its agents.(3) At the time an ownership is presumed abandoned under this section, any sum then held for interest or owing to the owner as a result of the interest and not previously presumed abandoned is presumed abandoned.(4) Any stock or other intangible ownership interest enrolled in a plan that provides for the automatic reinvestment of dividends, distributions, or other sums payable as a result of the ownership interest is subject to the presumption of abandonment as provided by this section.

Fully stocked kitchen with dishwasher and appliances.  

When I do buy it's usually sherwin williams or hallman lindsey.I use a large enclosed "stock" trailer (also have beef cattle) for my dumpster.

Tenants left the heat off in the dead of winter and who knows for how long the water was gushing from a broken pipe in the 2nd floor bathroom. #2.

The purpose of such plans is simply to expand the investment choices beyond conventional financial products and into asset classes such as real estate, private mortgages, stock of privately held companies, virtual currencies, etc. 

If they tell you a store has stock, it should be at the price you're seeing. 

And with the stock market unwinding, over the next 3 to 5 years, there will be an avalanche of money rotating into real estate.