The Real Estate vs. Stocks Debate – Which Investment Path is Right for You?
00:00:00.000 | stocks are super easy to get into. Stock investing takes very little time other than the
00:00:04.560 | minor hassle of opening a brokerage account, which today is like as simple as downloading an app and
00:00:09.280 | pressing a few buttons on your phone and connecting your bank account. I mean, that's really it. But
00:00:12.880 | once you've opened a brokerage account, you can buy and sell stocks in a few seconds and boom,
00:00:16.960 | you're done. Real estate though, it seems like it could be expensive, right? There are greater
00:00:21.200 | barriers to entry, I think, for real estate investing because it tends to be a more capital
00:00:25.920 | intensive asset class. You can't just open an app and buy rental properties for $10,
00:00:31.280 | although there are some funds and some modern crowdfunding platforms that do allow you to do
00:00:36.720 | that. I think of real estate investing as more entrepreneurial than buying equities and buying
00:00:43.360 | stock. In addition to those things that, you know, credit, income, down payment, you also need this
00:00:48.160 | expertise that can be a real investment of time that is probably not needed, especially for like
00:00:53.280 | index fund or other stock investing approaches here.