Your investment has produced and incredible return.  

Hi Stephen...Welcome to BP and the incredible wealth-building world of real estate investing.

I think you'll find that this is an incredible community to learn, find partners, and ask questions when you get stuck along the journey.

Very succinctly summarizes many of the techniques I use myself when evaluating properties, the most critical of which is filtering out those listings of $1k/night from the owner that just rents out their unit 3-5x/year and blocks it off as unavailable the other 300 days/year.

The good part is I have access to MLS the bad part is I'm struggling with finding houses below market value as prices in the area are already incredibly inflated.

That seems like incredibly valuable data.

I started my investment journey in January of 2023 and am incredibly grateful that I did.

To have someone willing to give you that kind of money on nothing but "trust" is such an incredible opportunity you owe them everything and they owe you nothing, good deal or bad deal, not that I think this situation would happen again.The unfortunate fact is that you had personal emotion tied with the money.

I have a client that just closed on a 3 family in Danbury and has an incredible 2 bed 2 full bath for rent. 

That sounds incredibly cheap.