I have calculated the ROIs of a buying a rental property versus simply buying into the SP500 and sitting back for 30 years.Rental Property Analysis:Initial Cash investment - $45,000Purchase price of $200,000 on 20 year termCash Flow neutral for loan term of 20 years.Cash Flow positive for remaining 10 years. 30 Year Approximate Net Profit = $110,000 Cash Flow + $300,000 EquityROI = ($410k / $45k) or 911%Stock Market Analysis:Initial Cash investment - $45,000Purchase shares in SP500 Index Fund30 Year Approximate Net Profit assuming 10% growth rate = $847,683ROI = ($847,683 / $45k) or 1883%Am I missing something?

I'm excited to be starting out with an opportunity to learn through house hacking my brother's 3bd/2ba house that is currently sitting empty.

I don't think he realized before sitting down and looking at everything how bad of position he is in. 

There are investors that come to the auctions and run the prices up to kill the profit and they will sit on it.

The home was left sitting for a few years, I replaced everything.

Don't sit there and turn the other cheek.

I currently own 5 doors in Southern California (2 duplexes and 1 single family) and I have 100K sitting in my bank account and I need to put it to work...Some of the ideas I’d had are to either leave my comfort zone (California) and buy something out of state...

I had just sold my first flip so was sitting on some cash.

The house sits on a corner lot close to the high school in my town, so it is a great location.

, FLOAT the interest rate, get all paperwork in, appraisal ordered, bla bla bla.... and just sit there like a sniper.So that as soon as the mortgage industry capacity issues are solved, boom, you're ready to fire that bullet and lock your rate.