Make sure property is “self supporting” meaning sufficient income to produce some cash flow after operating expenses and debt is paid.If one does that, they are set up for a profitable long term hold.If one invests in a prudent manner and is never in a position where they have to sell, they ultimately win.The top or bottom of a market is never known until 6 to 12 months after the fact.I’m a long term investor - my capital is patient.Here’s a question to ponder:If you could buy a property today for $1M, knowing it’s value would drop to $950,000 over the next year but would be worth $1.5M in 5 years, would you buy it today or hope to perfectly time the market and get at $950,000?

The more houses someone has, the more cashflow they can produce and experience they gain.

That's why I like this traditional ML approach, we leverage lots of data to inform our decision about which house is seriously "undervalued"ChatGPT & any AI is just going to give you a summary of the web pages it can find, but it doesn't have all the historic data to calculate on, it's just regurgitating a web page it found.

All 11 were new construction with 8 being SFRs, 1 duplex, and 2 quads that produce an annual income of around $250K a year after all expenses. 

I've been scouring the inter-webs for duplexes, but it doesn't seem like that's really a THING in North Dallas.

The only way to address this is with greater transparency, not stonewalling.Honestly, any lender who can't produce something more than a "generic testimonial page" gets a well-deserved "hairy eyeball" from me!

The applicant had this RE agent fill out my automated application on the web and did a terrible job of it leaving it amazingly incomplete with a bunch of "N/As" just to try and rush this applicant through.I waited for 48 hours and reposted. 

Do you want to increase equity, diversify your investment portfolio, or produce passive income?

Will certainly do so as it sounds like mid-term has the potential to produce better returns.

Hand writing a few hundred letters per year will take up tons of time and likely continue to produce poor results.