@Jordan Meltzer congrats on the mid term biz and your success. 

Fort Worth is a great market to get started REI.

Hi Charles,This is probably the fastest way to the poor house, mainly because, in Japan, houses are like cars as in their market value depreciates and goes to 0 over time.

If the latter, how does that look on a day to day in terms of operating, marketing, and the ownership structure?

For all methods you would want to find a market that has strong employment rates, strong income rates for the market, and is a growing or an established market. 

Reading about successful people strengthened my resolve.

Guest breaking down their markets and strategies gave me a lot of insight.

He is interested in REI, has good basic knowledge on REI and has more than enough saved up for down but hesitate because of current market, interest rate, rental demand, capex, first investment jitters, draw of stock market, etc, etc. 

Attend open houses to understand market trends.

Market 1bd rents are about $1500-$2000.Ideally, we would have 24 months to get thru plans/engineering/permits/rennovation.