Welcome back to the early retirement podcast. I'm your host Ari Taublieb, and today we're going to be

talking about real estate and the stock market. And this comes from a listener question named Jack,

who asked me, Ari, love the podcast and appreciate your information on the show. You're welcome.

And he says, what should I think about when it comes to real estate or the stock market?

I love the idea of a passive investment.

And real estate just sounds less risky.

I've read articles and it sounds like the smartest people in the world use real estate.

Although I have a friend who's extremely wealthy and he shares that real estate is not worth

the time and headache, even if it means that you can

get more return. What are your thoughts on real estate versus the stock market? So thank you for

your question. I will answer that in today's episode. Once again, if you're listening to this going,

I have a question for you. You can submit that on my website, early retirement podcast.com, and you can click on the submit

your question and I'll look to answer it in a future episode. And I do respond to everyone.

So in case you see I don't get a response or if I don't choose that question, I promise there

is a reason for it. Either I've done an episode on it already that addresses it or I just feel that it's not

most applicable to the whole group and I will send you individual resources that I think will help

I want to help as many people as possible know when they are in a position to retire early.

Now the first thing that I'm going to talk about when it comes to real estate versus the stock

market might be a non-traditional thought. So there's rates of return and there's real estate and there's

the time and effort that goes into it and there's tax benefits with real estate and then there's

the stock market and investing in it, which sometimes is like what am I only in? What am I even

investing in because the stock market is so big and I'm not

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