40 Questionable Financial Decisions People Have Made and Shared Online for Us to Learn From

Things that are great in this story: first, getting a reasonably sized inheritance is a great idea, and something I suggest we all do if we can possibly manage it. Second, investing in real estate is widely considered to be a solid choice. It won’t work out every time, but there’s a lot of potential there.

Things that are not great in this story include buying an investment property in a city you are nowhere near. Being a landlord is already not the easiest thing in the world, and unless you find an amazing property manager, trying to be a landlord from another city could be really impossibly hard.