If you like your gig and making money from it.Real Estate is first purchased as an investment.Any potential tax decrease is a plus.Comparing real estate with other investment types such as stocks / bonds, real estate will likely get you the best after tax return.

The advantage is that you can trade stocks and write the check to make the investment from the same account.

Right now for owner occupants, I have recently seen low 5's for 30 year terms. we might expect solid appreciation (7%+) in single-family residences (SFRs) and small multi-family properties over the next 3-8 years, though predicting beyond a few years is more uncertain.I've seen many local investors successfully increase rent rates over the past few years.

I prefer not investing this savings in stocks or other vehicles in the near term because I want it to be as available as possible. 

The only difficulty is I’m trying to find a multifamily property in an older housing stock area but nonetheless an owners unit inside a larger house is the goal but hopefully I can get lucky with the items you pointed out as well. 

Nashville should certainly be there - regs (but well regulated, predictable) and is the favorite trip for pretty much all SEC Schools (best city by far in SEC, drivable distance, Vanderbilt sells out typically >2/3 of the stadium to opposing fans, etc.)

I'd love some input on what to do:I am a 40 yrs with a stock market investments of 350K trying to coast fire in the next couple of years.I just got a green card and moving to the US from Canada and looking at which accounts to invest that money in the US.But I am not sure I will stay in the US in 10 or 20 yrs.What do you think would be the best strategy to coast fire when you are not sure where you are going to be in your later years?

I'm a new investor based in Dallas, Texas, currently working in IT and heavily invested in stocks.

Also, if you have a good amount of retirement invested in stocks like I do, and want to diversify some of that with real estate, then you have to do that with a SDIRA. 

Also you know you’ll have enough for your project whereas often at the box stores we were finding like 4 packs of the hinges that we wanted then having to wait 2 weeks to get the other 6 packs back in stock.