Looking to build relationships with experts and also investors in the fix and flipping and also short term and mid term rentals industries.

You are in a great spot to re-start your journey, especially with the help of your VA benefits and service to your country.

However, there are more and more resources that are helping the industry as a whole, so hopefully this will shift more positively in the coming years. 

Eventually, you will see a property pop up that is an outlier in your favor, and you will be the only person who knows that market so well as to be able to strike quickly.The 1% rule had a value at one point, maybe as a screening tool, but it could never compete with the specialist who has done the reps.This is spot on. 

Hi everyone,I'm considering moving from real estate to construction and keep seeing articles about high interest rates and labor shortages affecting the construction industry, but they often only scratch the surface.

When investing locally, it helps to network with as many locals in the industry as you can.

For pros, he challenges conventional wisdom and explodes sacred cows by exposing hidden conflicts of interests and mis-alignments that many in the industry won’t admit to.

You are in the same spot a lot of current homeowners are in.

I've been in the industry for 2 years and I've documented a lot of the challenges I've faced on BP!

Live in new home while it appreciates for 10 years until I get a faculty housing spot, sell private market house, put proceeds (minus downpayment) in bank for retirement (I estimate this will be 1.3 mil before capital gains and real estate fees based on 7% growth in a very desirable Southern California location), and take out new loan for lower cost faculty housing.