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What is your magic number ?
Hi All,
My name is Benny and I start browsing my way through the real estate investment world.
After reading a few books and learning a few courses, I wanted to approach to the power of the web.
My question is: What is the preferred market size to focus on when exploring investment opportunities. Obviously State or even county are too big. On the other hand small towns (40K-50K) might not present big pool of possible transactions (buy and sell).
So what is your magic number ?
Thanks,
Benny
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My Magic number is 47...my lucky number is 3.
In REI? There is no Magic Number. Everything you said wouldn't work in your post, does...but not everywhere. The Magic Numbers have $$$$ in front of them. Not population, Not Area Code, Not Zip Code, Not area size, Not...a lot of things using numbers, other than those with $$$$ in front of them.