In Rich Dad Poor Dad, Kiyosaki writes, “On every one of my investments, there must be an upside, or something for free - like land, a house, stock shares, or an idea.

It's been going OK so far; we've had to put money into it for August and will as well for September, but that's mainly startup costs to get it going (initial landscaping, big cleaning services upfront, stocking supplies).

Ask for recommendations from other real estate folks.Last year I had taxes in 2 states plus federal taxes, they included real estate, stocks and bonds, selling inherited property, did the "long form" for federal taxes because of medical expenses that were 1/3 of my income and real estate taxes on non rental property, paying 2 minor children for working on rental properties (they had ROTH IRA tax paperwork set up),  and paid under $500 for the tax man. 

Rinse and repeat.Pros: Repeatable and predictable.

Original purchase $250 (their share fully depreciated), today's value $500Please read more on Asset sale vs Stock sale. 

I know lots of architects, and would usually go that way, but in this case it may be less expensive to buy a stock 4-family plan from a modular builder.

And of course very market specific.But when you look at lower value assets lets say any home that can be purchase for 100k and under which is a great portion of the rental stock in the mid west.. most of those renters pay 700 to 1000 for the house and if they bought them their all in payments would be less than rent and by a lot in many cases.. yet they still don't buy.. 

In terms of percentages you would be doing about the same as the stock market and in the stock market you do not even have to hustle or risk loosing your hole mortgage.

We are looking forward to retirement but concerned about our ability to weather the stock market swings over the next 25 years and maybe more.

Just ask all the experts that have been predicting doom for the past 10-12 years.