Originally posted by @James Hamling:@Arsen Atanasovski I really appreciate your accurate, honest and well articulated look behind the curtain, and 100% understanding the retail Realtors side of things. 

I never said you can't make money buying entry level single family homes in the Midwest or any market for that matter....but the investors who are most inclined to succeed are the hands on operators, not the passive investors or those paying retail price for a turn key in a lower tier neighborhood with no barriers of entry.

Would probably be better that I buy from a builder, I just find it less appealing buying at retail when I'm looking for cash flow...I'm spoiled from having a $1000+ cash flowing property already, so if I'm not hitting that number, it's not going to work for me.

With the COVID-era surge in home prices, rapid increases in mortgage rates, and rents not keeping pace, it really has gotten harder to make these deals work.

Without going into great detail, you are provided 50 motivated leads per month for 1/5th of the cost I have found from “retail” lead companies. 

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Pace Morby.

Many online courses are self-paced, so working on it in your spare time is absolutely doable.If a career shift isn’t your goal, you can still learn the "game" through various other means.

By year end I will tackle a MF, value add with my son that would be sweet if we can swing the coop/tic (handling the finance challenges is the hurdle) so he ends up with a unit at below 50% of retail.