The reason to get your license is access (to see properties) and data (for ARV and comps.)The class to get your license is way more relevant to investors than agents since they work residential and most do nothing so it's useful to take the class.

Essentially you are plugging in all of your data and they are using market price studied to generate your deductions.

There is also some data that suggests if local investors swift there long term rentals to STRs, home values will increase, leaving homes on the market to be purchased by out of town investors, and LTR scarcity leading to locally increased LTR rates. 

Even if the market only appreciated at the rate of inflation, my equity growth is still beating inflation because I'm conservatively leveraged.4) It is unlikely single family prices will go down in any meaningful way as evidenced by over 100 years of US housing price data.

The key evaluation data points for STR investors are accurate records of rental income and occupancy and/or projections from local mangers and online tools.

I guess it's hard to scrape together $750 by the first when you make $58,000 per year.

May 2024 data showed an 11.9% year-over-year increase in median sale prices for single-family homes.

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I've been a field superintendent at GCs, and now I work on the product/data team of a construction cost data company.

That's according to data from local MLSs of the Houston Association of REALTORS®, North Texas Real Estate Information Systems, San Antonio Board of REALTORS® and the Austin Board of REALTORS®.Ben Caballero, the first Guinness World Record holder for home sales, broke his world record for an individual real estate agent, selling 5,793 homes totaling $2,270,911,643 in a single year.Ranked as the No. 1 real estate agent for nearly a decade by REAL Trends for both total sales and number of transactions, Caballero also listed an additional 668 homes for brokerages owned by home builders for an additional sales volume of $228,992,475.