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When It's Cooooold Outside...
Question to those of you that are also newbies:
What's the plan for the winter? I am looking at properties now, but every time I get close to pulling the trigger, I think that it's going to be winter shortly and I would be struggling to get any tenant at all until spring or summer, let alone a good one.
Do you all mostly wait until the tail end of winter for purchasing/reno so that it's ready for renting in spring/summer?
Are you actually able to somehow build in 5 months of vacancy to your property price and still get people to sell to you?