I've owned plenty of stock but mostly inherited.

It will be appraised with the local single family stock of the neighborhood because the mortgage industry sees anything under 5 units similar to a SFR.

You wouldn't walk up to a successful hedge fund manager and say, teach me all that you know about stocks, without him expecting something in return.  

It doesn't make sense to reach out for a few extra points of yield, if you're risking losing 20% or more of your investment in the next downturn.Another 20% should generally be invested in traditional markets (income-producing stocks with dividends, bonds).

However, since we cannot predict the future and there may eventually be a need or desire to take cash out of this investment, if the ARV is less than the Max Investment amount ($180,000) you risk lowering your overall return when you sell.   

I feel the seed money can be better used in property investment than traditional stock investing.

This area unfortunately is hard to predict future growth.

It is always hard for me due to factoring in my time (managing property vs managing stock).

I always knew I was a genius ;)If Cramer can influence the stock market through his show why cant biggerpoeckets affect the real estate market?

I am also an stock inverstor, but I know that real estate investing is way different.