Are you looking for an investment vehicle that offers tax advantages? 

These sound like a diversification vehicle maybe what you would want 1/3 of your portfolio focused on? 

Oahu real estate is the best investment vehicle you could ask for.

Only thing that will save it is enhanced transportation to DC like the Maglev being built or autonomous vehicles eliminating speed limits on a BW parkway lane or 95. 

As an investor, holding a note you started 3 years ago with a 4.0 rate, if rates have risen to 7.0, you may think to yourself, "well shivver me timbers, let me dump this 4.0 paying investment vehicle, and put buy a 7.0 note.

There are discussions happening amongst my investors comparing the best investment vehicles - mutual funds (7%-10% ROI historically) vs. note investing (6%-14% depending on the asset).Thanks all!

You are both grantor and trustee.Create an LLC with you as trustee of living trust u/d/t xx/xx/xxxx as owner of LLC Create a title holding trust for each property with this LLC as trustee of the THT.Bene of each THT is your own estate planning vehicle, the family living trust.

So make sure to shop around.1031s are great vehicles, but there is a cost and headache factor. 

But I can relate with you when you say most of the planner are not going to recommend you RE as the investment vehicle because they are not taught and if they are not investing themselves, they will have no clue. 

For me the ability to force appreciation quickly in a high appreciation market is the whole point of owning real estate instead of other truly passive, lower risk investment vehicles.