Brokers may be unnecessary to some sellers in the current market; next year in a totally different market environment sellers may be begging brokers to list their properties.  

While you've already explored Harrisburg, Allentown, and Scranton, consider expanding your search to include other rural towns around metro areas that might offer a more stable and landlord-friendly environment.

My goal with that is to foster an environment where college students can better prepare themselves financially by improving their financial literacy and exposing them to different types of investments early on.

This can be in the form of cash, paying their agent fee, part of their moving costs, etc.Remember, the goal here is to end the lease peacefully and legally, respecting both your rights and those of your tenants.

We are getting ready to hold this debate at our monthly REIA meeting and there are a lot more factors - interest rates, appreciating properties, changing regulatory environment and more.

The rebound came suddenly amid still very high interest rate environment.

Just something to think about.This makes me want to create new class for investor, really , maybe I can charge $250 for an investment class and how to understand appreciation/ cash flow at different market environment.

It was also financed as a secondary home (I was told that there is no difference in rate in the current environment between a second home or a rental).

This is one reason that people have been saying cap rates would be going up because why would you buy RE at a 5 cap (5%) when you can take that money, in todays interest rate environment, and invest it in safe investments that take zero of your time and don't have unseen expenses, and get 5% or better?

I know from my end, I've seen plenty of short-sale deals fluctuate by tens of thousands of dollars on the same property within just a couple of months simply because of some revised comps.As far as owning something 100% instead of leveraging it, there is the peace of mind that comes with having little to no overhead.