@John FordWith all that equity lying dead in your property you actually have major negative cash flow from your property.

Selecting a stock as long as you are in a blue chip stock and evaluating technical analysis, anybody can do it. 

In the past year we became the owners of a duplex and learned about writing leases and screening tenants, we put in several offers, had 2 go almost to closing then had the sellers back out, ended up getting called back on 2 offers that we thought were dead and ended up closing on a foreclosure and are mid-cycle on a BRRRR method and are in attorney review on the second duplex.

Have fire extinguishers at the ready, and do it in the morning so there is a lot of time for any embers to be well dead before guys knock off for the day.  

Give you the wherewithal to pursue and achieve your long-term goalsMany investors start off "too hot", and they either overdevelop their first property or they spend their money too fast - either of these behavior will stop you dead in your tracks, and you probably won't even be able to achieve your short-term goals - and you certainly won't have the resources to pursue your long-term goals.

Give you the wherewithal to pursue and achieve your long-term goalsMany investors start off "too hot", and they either overdevelop their first property or they spend their money too fast - either of these behavior will stop you dead in your tracks, and you probably won't even be able to achieve your short-term goals - and you certainly won't have the resources to pursue your long-term goals.

He was able to cash out the money he wanted, have a better cash flow situation, and his capital stock on the new buildings was better.

I asked why this was the case since the contract had been dead for a week?

Basically think of 'who might have funds to invest' (this can be in a IRA or just in 'cash/stocks' as far as I am concerned). 

Class "B" stock in my LLC, and things like that.