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All Forum Posts by: Christopher M Conner

Christopher M Conner has started 0 posts and replied 3 times.

@Robert Ellis, sorry to hijack a thread, but I'm working on my second rental property, my first was the first house I bought 20 years ago, so it just takes care of itself, so this portion is new to me.  I'm really interested in just having properties that break even and grow in value until I retire in 20 years.  When you talked about the floorplans in Columbus, it made me want to go check as I hear Columbus a bunch and I'm 3 hours away which isn't too bad.  I found a bunch of new builds of 1100 sq ft homes around what Zillow says is Fairgrounds?  Just curious if you have any insight in that area, if you don't mind my asking?

Quote from @Ariel Herrera:

Learning programming is a competitive advantage in real estate to obtain quality data, automate processes, and analyze deals at scale. As a Data Scientist in the real estate sector I am often asked, how do I analyze multiple markets? how do I get data from Zillow? how do I use creative methods to obtain leads? Simple answer - learn a scripting language FAST and work on REAL WORLD problems.

I created a course, Introduction to Real Estate Data Analytics, to help those who want to learn their market and get started in Python. It focuses on using real estate related examples. The beginning of the course is available for free on Youtube.

What other resources do you suggest for real estate folks to get started in programming?

This is fabulous!  I was just looking all over for properties and I hate that I have no insight into how good or bad the neighborhoods are or how likely a property is to stay rented.  So I figured that I was wasting time when python could probably do this for me.  And then I wondered if maybe ML could help?  Anyhow, that was just in the last 2 hours so no progress yet.

I’m dying to watch your videos for insight!!
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Hello! My fiancée and I will be beginning our real estate investment journey in 2024 and are looking for any suggestions or pointers as we make some of our initial decisions.

We live in Los Angeles, so it’s probably not surprising that we are leaning toward out-of-state investing. Combined we are making about 250-300k annually pre-tax. However, we aren’t W2 employees, all that income is from 1099 independent contractor work, which of course will limit what financing we can qualify for.

We have 100k+ saved in the bank, but don’t want to plow all of it into our first deal. Ideally we will find a (relatively) low priced market to be able to get into without putting up huge amounts of capital.

If it were possible to invest within driving distance we would love that, since we are a little nervous about dealing with any renovations or even just unexpected maintenance from out-of-state. However, I think the prices in California will cause us to invest out of state and we will just have to learn how to set up the right systems and processes to deal with issues as they come up.

Any pointers on decently priced markets that we could get into in 2024 for a solid first investment property would be much appreciated. We are open to single and multi family, although we’d prefer multi of course. We also aren’t set on doing long, medium, or short term, and would be open to advice about which way will probably be best for our given situation.

Thank you and look forward to starting our investment career!


In Cincinnati, 60k will be more than enough to for a down payment and closing costs, and have funds for any "surprise repairs" that will inevitably come. Getting a small multifamily under 250k is more than possible (with cash flow). let me know if you have any questions!

Mind if I ask where I could look in Cincinnati?  I’m in central Ky and the numbers so far always have me running at a loss unless interest rates go down.  So I’m thinking about Northern LY, Cincinnati, Dayton and Columbus as possible options.