Birmingham is a great market for real estate investment right now—it offers solid rent-to-price ratios, affordable home prices, and consistent rental demand.If you’re thinking about investing in Birmingham, I can provide some helpful data and share insights about neighborhoods that align with your goals.

If you can find an affordable way to get a degree it should hopefully improve your earning potential.

The massive influx of full-time residents to our market in the last 5 years has led to a shortage of affordable housing for renters. 

If you cannot afford the monthly payment you are immediately removed from the platform.

If you take the lower value areas the only reason people choose to live there is the affordability really.

I like them both, in general, but the best way to find a town to invest in outside of where you live if it's not affordable and if you don't want to be withing driving distance easily (recommended) is to make two lists:1. every town you have ever lived in or visited for more than a month2. every town your closest friends and family live (the ones you like)Then you take those two lists and see where they overlap with the data or lists you are using.

I like starting in the Midwest because it's affordable and offers good cash flow.

Not sure how often that happens and to the extent it does, how much individuals are receiving.Trying my best not to politicize this, but have to add that massive bailouts are going to continue to get harder to afford with the high federal debt we have today.

You could say this about any facet of real estate, yet plenty of people are still crushing it in everyone.

At the time I didn't think she could afford it but right now I'm glad she did.