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New Invester Starting Around Military Bases

David Wood
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Hello,

My name is David, and I am currently an Active Duty in the U.S. Army serving overseas. I do not have any prior real estate experience, but my goal is to learn how to retire from my 9-to-5 job within the next 5-8 years via long distance BRRR strategy. I am listening to BP videos and Morris Invest via YouTube, and looking through various posts here at BP. "Long Distance Real Estate Investing" by David Greene has a lot of good sutff, and I had to replay so many times to regurgitate!

My current short-term goal for the next 6 months is to reduce my liabilities from unnecessary credit card debts, while focusing on learning how to really commit to financial discipline. My goal is to start looking for deals 6-8 months as I will have more flexible funds month-to-month by then.

I want to know how you guys started out doing market research, and the resources that you are using. These are the list of resources that I am using when I'm looking through the markets for the areas listed below. I want to hear if you guys have a set process and/or better resources that I can use. At glance, it seems like College Station and Fort Gordon areas are is too expensive to get in, and Fort Gordon area (especially Grovetown) shows high crime rate. I am not sure if I am looking at the data correctly, but I think the first two areas are not too expensive for my criterion. What are your thoughts?

House Search Criterion:

- Purchase approx. <$60k, not exceeding $100k per unit

- Looking for rental property with cash flow of $400-500/mo.

- SFH/duplex/four-plex

Platforms:

- rentometer.com (for rent rate est.)

- smartasset.com (for property tax est.)

- county tax records via web

- bestplaces.net (for economy, job growth)

- Trulia/Realtor.com (for crime rate, users feedback about the area)

Markets Considering:

1. College Station/Bryan, TX

2. Fort Gordon/Martinez/Grovetown/Hephtizbah, GA

3. Fort Hood/Killeen, TX

4. Suburban areas in Dalls/Fort Worth, TX

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