You know you want to be in real estate because it's a smart move, but your time constraints don't allow it.2 low hanging fruits that stick out: 1 - investing in a house hack scenario so you can immediately start building equity instead of renting 2 - investing through real estate funds and syndications.

If I pour lemon juice in a glass of water without any suger.. it is sour.

"It’s especially unhelpful because there are many people trying to fleece inexperienced investors"Someone will call me mean because I tell them to ask better questions, but then they are the ripest of fruit for the click funnel coming their way because they will yes them to death.Honesty is a way of saving people from the mistakes a lot of us have made.

Maslow's Hierarchy....Food, water, shelter are the basic building blocks of humanity and order, without them things like love, enlightenment, self-realization(the higher levels of the hierarchy) are much less likely to be achieved.Not only are we involved in providing one of those basic building blocks, it does not take a genius or a ruthlessly competitive person to eventually earn a high social status(wealth) from the fruits of our labor and sacrifices.

The post asks what are you doing to change things, yet you rant on about graduation rates and parental households without causation .. just bad fruit on the vine.

She will be very interested then by the fruit of your labor... do you have a prenup?

Annuities could do it, but doing so would come at the expense of losing the principle.Perhaps some education on the different asset classes she explicitly wants to avoid would be the most fruitful.

. - Go buy some small jelly jars, a lot of fruit, and a few boxes of pectin/sure-jell and you are ready to rock.

My current strategy is to focus on STRs where I can juice my returns.

It's class C so that has its issues sometimes, but overall the juice has been worth the squeeze.