Before investing in a new market, I literally take a few days to walk along the city on every single street to have a comprehensive view of the local housing stock and market.

I’m estimating that in 6 months I’ll have 4-5k in the stock market and another 5-7k in my savings account.

I want to invest in Real estate rental properties with my Va Loan, while investing in the stock market monthly and my Roth IRA.

if you do any stock investments, you will understand. 

After the degree it becomes more about the hustle, drive, integrity, work ethic, never going to stop, work nights, work weekends, stop looking at twitter and research RE, Stocks, businesses instead.My opinion.

Many of them continued to try to remote-manage the property and made various other bad choices.Cue present day: these duplexes are always in bad shape, always run by incompetent aging LLs who wish their parents had just given them some stock in Ma Bell or General Electric, always need a lot of TLC from good handymen, who are fewer and fewer in number.

I have a small business, and I am planning to acquire extra stock of goods.

While it's true your old home may appreciate, this is gamble much like the stock market and I would not consider this a conservative investing move if these are the only "assets" you have (now if you are sitting on $1M with good liquidity... well different story). 

Also you can stock up on your real estate knowledge and always stay current with what's happening in your local market and the national market.Good Luck and stay focused!

If I take thesale and put the $385k in a stock mutual fund, the return seems likeit would be equivalent.