The main purpose of any investment is to generate more money than the amount invested, the time it takes to do so is called the payback period (PBP) in capital budgeting. Payback period is wildly used by investors and entrepreneurs when they consider to open a new enterprise, invest in an existing business, or when they try to pick the best opportunity among two or more possible options.

It’s hard to make an entertaining and interesting film about the stock market for the masses, many filmmakers have tried (Margin Call, Rogue Trader, The Wolf of Wall Street, etc.), but most of them failed to attract an average person.

You can open almost any old book on wealth management, investing or smart capital allocation and you would find the same idea that seems to be extremely popular at all times: investing in real estate is a great option. Most of those books were written a while ago, has the situation regarding investing in real estate changed in these days?