You've got to hand it to Warren Buffett -- the man sure knows how to grow a portfolio into billions of dollars. And he's gotten to that point by investing savvily in the right businesses.

But one investment Buffett has long shied away from is real estate -- specifically, physical real estate. While a lot of people do quite well for themselves owning income properties or flipping homes for a profit, Buffett doesn't like to go that route.

And that's just fine -- clearly, he's not exactly struggling, so why should he push himself outside of his comfort zone and invest his money in assets he's not on board with? But while real estate investing may not work for Buffett, that doesn't mean you have to take a similar approach to building your own portfolio.

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Source Fool.com