I've had my fill of gurus peddling dreams for the price of a small island nation, and I refuse to sit idly by, twiddling my thumbs while life passes me by.So, here I am, dear reader, baring my soul and begging for guidance.

Edinburg is the 12th fastest growing cities in the nation. https://riograndeguardian.com/edinburg-is-now-the-12th-faste...I'll send you a message.

they aren't Columbus based out of Solon ohio which is Cleveland / Akron if that's the market you are looking for. if they said they service columbus I'd laugh out loud and move on  There is more to the state of Ohio than the city of Columbus there young blood. https://spectrumnews1.com/oh/columbus/news/2023/03/30/nation...$200 billion dollars worth of projects in ohio, $159 billion in Central Ohio. $8 in every $10 dollars to ohio's economy is in Central Ohio. 

I do not know the source of your RE crashed 50% at Great Recession (GR) or that residential RE has barely surpassed their peak prices from before the GR.I have seen numbers of property decline from the GR range from 20% to 33% nationally.  

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 - your market has produced one of the best residential returns in the nation for this century

Nationally, costs for home repair and remodeling rose +39.9% between April 2019 and April 2024.

I am considering taking the CO/national real estate exam + course hours requirement and becoming an independent broker or associating with a small brokerage (I can see the benefit of associating with a firm experienced in the area and able to bounce ideas off of).

Maybe a couple of the big national brands and a couple of smaller independent ones. 

I've progressed from owning fixer upper duplexes in the north end of Winnipeg where I would do the renos myself late into the night; to purchasing large apartment buildings to acquiring properties in 13 different cities across Canada and the United States. to now buying office buildings and institutional-grade grocery-anchored retail centers leased to national tenants and publicly traded companies like Walmart, Safeway, and Loblaws.Before 27, I achieved lean FIRE, all thanks to the inspiration and fundamental concepts from the BP podcast and the incredible people I've met along the way in this entrepreneurial journey by betting on myself, committing to lifelong learning, and nurturing an insatiable curiosity.If someone like me, who barely made it through high school and would be considered "unlikely to succeed" by my peers, can do it, so can anyone reading this.