I hired Jenny Yi to design our latest STR in person, she demanded that I pay the full amount of her services upfront, $7,500, which I thought was strange as we are used to paying half upfront and half once it's completed, but proceeded anyway because a couple of people recommended her.

Location. 25 minutes to beach, 40 minutes to Florence, 15 minutes to Pisa, 60 miles to snow skiing.  10 minutes to Home Depot style store, etc.  

On the flip side the clients I fund in my land deals are doing very very well in the foothill subdivision 50 miles or so west of the springs.. but thats the land game buy low sell high.. cant wholesale that stuff it needs to go on MLS to marketed and turn around time is generally 90 to 180 days but nice margins for my clients ..

In 2022, half of American renters spent over 30% of their income on rent and utilities, the highest percentage ever recorded. 

We managed over half of the purchase price in cash and then the remainder was held as a 3 year seller's note.

We live in Lakeland, TN 20 miles from the Blue Oval site and I recently had a new BO employee rent one of my homes with a potential to sell in the Spring/Summer of next year.

Of course, my main jobsites were within 20 miles of the border.

Water and sewer about 200 yards away.  1 mile to the main highway.  

We did not know if our proximity to Nashville would be more important because of the fact that we would be doing a short-term rental with the property for half of the year and then using the property exclusively as a rental in a few years?

There’s no real reason to jump into another market unless your goals shift and your current market doesn’t fit anymore—or if the market itself stops producing the results you need.Mastering one market and squeezing every opportunity out of it is a much better play than spreading yourself too thin and getting half-baked results in multiple places.