My wife is not sold on real estate investing yet for a few reasons. She does not want to get invested and then something happen to me and she needs to be come landlord and she doesn't see the bigger picture. Tax deductions, long term wealth and monthly cashflow. 

We give each other an allowance to spend on what we want and I have $2500 dollars currently I would like to put to work. Anyone have an recommendations to get started that is outside of crowdfunding or eReits? Thanks for anyone that has ideas!!