Long-Term PerspectiveBe Patient: Real estate investing is often a long-term game.

It's all fun and games until there's a liquidity crisis.

Weekends brings in people visiting family or going to a foot ball game and week nights is mostly contractors or other blue collar groups needing a place for the week that is nice but cheaper than a hotel.

The reforms in 2022 were a game changer.

My advisor suggested that at my stage of the game, 8 properties, it likely made more sense to keep the extra money available or in the business to use as emergency funds or to accumulate for another down payment.

I know this is a super competitive space and like @Joshua Granberg said, the new zoning changes in western Washington in recent years has been a game changer for these types of units.

It often feels like a constant game of cat and mouse with phone carriers.

35810 is my favorite zip, lots of good things happening there.

The appreciation and principal paydown gained over the years was well worth the shell game I played by under rehabbing the houses for rent to keep under that 70% ltv mark and still offering enough to take them down.  

And, if Demorats are elected the favorable treatment will probably go away because they hate favoritism for capital gains.