We are currently looking for a duplex to house hack in the NY Capital Region, but given the extreme shortage of stock we're considering revising our search to include single family property too.

I want to get a second property but must of my money is in the stock market.

Cash from stock investments.

I got started 2 months ago of course by reading Rich Dad Poor Dad which started my passion from stock trading to real estate.

I have a beautiful wife andtwo boys at home (the boys own the responsibility for my continuedhair loss), and believe I finally have the right pieces in place tostabilize life for my family (retirement planning, expense control,etc), so I can now begin part 2 of my journey by jumping into REinvesting.While I am new to REInvesting (aside from the books I read by Brandon, David, Scott &some of the other Bigger Pockets team), I have been around investingfor the last 20 years (mainly investing in stocks, but also somefancy derivative trading when I am feeling bold).

@Will Fraser You may find it funny but we need a real estate worth much as a collateral to buy the other real estate or we can also have stocks as a collateral which we can have 75% of the rate of 120 days. 

As for instance, $40,000 for property like this seems like a good idea, except you may want to consider diversifying just a little bit and putting a few $1000 in Bitcoin or some other individual stocks.

My thought is a SD IRA basically gives you alternative to stocks.

Stocks aren't my area of expertise. 

Also ,if we want to objectively looking at how good this particular rental sector is , just look at stock performance for SFR REIT such as INVH and AMH (they have the largest market cap rate), their stock has returned to pre-covid level ( haven't checked their distribution though).