It depends on what real estate you are referring to, because some property has the potential for huge profits and some property are just leaching profits. <I had a small plot of land, with no house, where I had to pay land taxes every month and I could not rent out the property to pay for the taxes.>
It was also not situated in a area with large potential for higher profits in the future. I sold the property and I used the money to first pay some debt and then to invest in bitcoins. Last year I sold some of those bitcoins and I made more than 800% profit on the coins. I used the profit to buy better real estate.

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