I'm happy to share my experience as both a lender and investor.

Hi Kevin,Thanks for sharing your story.

Many investors are willing to share their experiences, especially if you come from a place of curiosity and respect for their time.

Looking forward to sharing my journey and learning from your experiences.

They tend to have more stable tenants, no shared yard maintenance, and better long-term appreciation potential.

But I know there’s so much to learn from the collective wisdom of this community.Let’s share some insights:What’s been your most successful recent deal, and why?

We invest in Toledo and Detroit , We are more then willing to share why and what we have learnt over the years if anyone  wants to chat

Ashish, this is so helpful, thank you for sharing!

To be honest, I´m in the Maintenance & Construction for corporate businesses for some US companies in Mexico and we do some Real Estate down here also, but it´s way much different than the US, so I have much to learn from a lot of people around here and as @Julio Gonzalez, I think this is pretty much the right pad and place to start and to break my fears to start all over again from scratchAlso, I´ld like to hear more from @Justin Brickman why he voted for his city, pros and cons, it will help to read from a local...As I said before, thank you all guys for taking the time to write in this post and share some experienceDo you plan to owner occupy. $40k will not get you a non owner occupied San Diego property unless you find some unlikely alternate financing.

@Aubrey Eblin Thank you very much for sharing your experience with the Rent To Retirement Academy.