I've seen companies lay off thousands of engineers and programmers at a time, but no one walks away from infrastructure.Amazon announced three more centers in Las Vegas.

Would layoff notices be a good source of leads foe wholesaling?

“the Robinhood/Acorns/Betterment of residential real estate”.Our value proposition to landlords is mainly:i) You can liquidate part of your property at any time, thus accessing capital otherwise ‘trapped’ in your property which you can then spend however you like, including rolling into purchasing your next investment propertyFor example: sell 10% of 400k property for 40k cashii) Not only can you get liquidity, you can proportionately liquidate your property for an equivalent above market rates, as investors are willing to pay a premium for access and liquidity.For example: sell 10% of your 400k property for 45k (not 40k)This obviously creates complications - especially around rental yields and expenses, so we are looking for opinions and feedback from landlords like yourselves on the below: If you retained full rental income but also fully covered all expenses as if you were 100% owner, is the option to partially liquidate your property generally appealing (point i above)?

I've been paying attention to the cycles, and paying attention to your comments and helpful postings, :) I was quite curious about the recent one you attached re: unemployment, they say the market is softening - lay-offs, still not a buyers market. 

DFW has a huge retail and restaurant sector, I haven't heard of many layoffs other than some corporate bankruptcies, JCP, Ruby Tuesday, Pier 1?

There has been no layoff ever from these big employers.

Don't want to sound negative in my second post but Round Rock has had a highly competitive rental market due to Dell layoffs over the last few years.

My market has always been bad compared to, but with recent factory worker buy outs and layoff's, a ton of homes have been given to the banks.

They both work for the same company, so there is some risk in the future if the company has layoffs, but that's life for any employee/tenant.So definitely get the last month's rent if there's any doubt.

Know your market, know what a house is worth in the area you are looking in, know the trends in both price and rent for the area.I work primarily in 3 zip codes, I know those areas well (but know of parts of those I won't invest in),,you should know whats going on with the schools, any development planned in the area employment opportunities or potential layoffs,,knowing the area (and of course the knowledge you get from biggerpockets) will help keep you from making a mistake.I look in other areas from time to time, but when I do I have to do a lot more due diligence