As I don’t want to be double taxed, I don’t serve dividends.I intend to invest the cash issued from the rents in stocks (REIT, other safe high dividend stocks, bonds…) before the acquisition of my next property.

The stock market dropped over 20% at the end of last year...technically a "bear market".  

Hi Cory,You have options, you could either use the equity from your home, wholesale to build a cash reserve or use a hard money lender.Using your equity: Allows you to buy, say a property from an auction, rehab, rent and refin.Wholesaling: Allows you to build up cash flow where you can ultimately purchase the house with the cash you stock piled and follow the same BRRR process.Hard Money Lenders: Allow you to finance your deal and rehab cost and flip the property. 

Remember, I'm trying to compare this to the alternative: Leaving my $ in a balanced portfolio of stocks and/or bonds.  

My question is this, should I be moving more of my cash into the stock market or is keeping it liquid good for my short term goal of buying real estate?

A better question is when do I stop investing in the stock market and funnel the money into a real estate portfolio.

So I currently have over $250,000 in cash and over 7 figures in the stock market, yet when I check rates for investment rentals — I’m getting like 5.5-6%.

@Eric Horn in principle a good plan, but I'd like to caushen you about "scaling up quickly from there."

Shares of stock or membership interests in an LLC/partnership are not like-kind with real property, so if the syndication is set up where they are purchasing stock/membership interests, then a 1031 wouldn’t work.

Looking to roll $2M in stock capital gains into an OZ investment.