Devin, is an REALTOR® and native to The Greater Palm Springs area.

All the PROs and CONs I listed still apply.Another alternative is to find a market that you have some innate advantage in - where you grew up, where you have friends, where your native language is spoken, whatever - and buy a place that doesn't need much/any renovation, then hire a property manager.  

I am a fellow San Diegan (not a native though lol) so I look forward to see how you make out!

Always great to have a fellow NJ native here!

I'm a Columbus native ready to get into real estate investing with a focus on buy and rent investments.

At best, we could envision some dystopian future wherein mostly abandoned neighborhoods in places like Detroit are reclaimed en masse, ownership rights of the natives disregarded (queue claims of Eminent Domain), and then the area is opened up for re-enclosure, but I see that as unlikely because (I like to think, at least) we're done with the whole "rights of the natives disregarded" thing.This wikipedia article focuses on enclosure in what we now know as the UK, but the phenomenon happened at some point in the history of most countries. 

I am a California native and am currently a realtor located in San Francisco.

My name is Kristen Bratnick, and I am a north east Ohio native, with buying and selling experience in this market.

I am a native of The Bay Area, and my team and I specialize in finding Lease Investments for our clients, underwriting the acquisition of the property, oversee the construction management of the rehab, then manage the commercial or residential property as an experienced Bilingual Property Manager.

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