While seller advantages remain, a rise in new listings suggests a potential cooling trend.

Purchase price: $74,000 Cash invested: $30,000 Beautifully renovated 4-bedroom split-level home that features a new galley style kitchen with 42" soft close cabinets, stainless steel appliances, recessed lights, updated baths with modern vanities and fixtures, large living room that leads to separate dining room off kitchen, three spacious bedrooms on 2nd level with modern decor, large lower-level family room with ceramic tile flooring with well-placed laundry cove, and recently laid sod in front and rear of property.

So people are still traveling in spades, more than ever, maybe just not to the same places, making this likely a local thing.More to @Jerry Calhoun's point on international travel being the hot trend now, the Booking.com CEO was just on CNBC giving an interview and he said that in the past two years their bookings revenue in the US has very much outpaced European bookings (which have lagged coming out of covid), but is seeing much larger growth in Europe bookings this year.

To discover suitable investment opportunities, it is crucial to conduct thorough research, analyze local market trends, assess rental demand, consider job growth, evaluate neighborhood dynamics, and anticipate potential appreciation.

Average Rental Rates, Q1, 3br, 2ba, Single Family2024: $16822023: $16302022: $1523Average Rental Rates, Q1, 2bedrooms2024: $11372023: $10792022: $1102-John Williams, Property ManagerClarksville, TN

This town is very small in population (population trend not growing) although has a community college that is less than half mile walking distance from ANY of the properties (community college population is growing at WELL above avg rate(dorm rate 850mth))

I have since put everything back on ebay and have sold it all, getting most of my money back. ( Very proud of myself for figuring out a way for a broke *** red neck idiot, to get basically a free Real estate investing education which so far has made me a buck or two,)    :)     Even today when I feel I need to get current in trends and techniques I go to ebay for some easy listening material, but I've found that most of it is just rehashed fluff from the origional gurus from my early years.

@Nathan Grubb   like this Amazon.com: HG Power 8 Inch Kitchen Exhaust Fan, 576CFM Stainless Steel Bathroom Exhaust Fan, Wall Mounted Garage Ventilation Fan, Basement Extractor Fan with Backdraft Damper for Home Office Commercial Use : Tools & Home ImprovementIt used to be in all the 50/60s homes with a little pull chain to turn it on.

Looking into the trends in the local market and making sure the property is in a wanted area can make up for the first money spent.Good luck!

Add to this migration trends to the South from the North, and you have an interesting brew that seems pretty recession resistant.