Looks strange. Krypto currencies have much higher ROI now Thant Real estate...
It's not about higher ROI, it's more about investing in something that has a nice and stable ROI. Bitcoin, ethereum and others could crash by 50% in a month, real estate not so much.
We're going to be paid in ETH anyway

. Imagine if there will be a month with an ETH dip (and sure this happens) and you'll sell them only when ETH is bullish, can we talk about a double profit? As you can see ROI can be also exponential