These can drive up the price also.

In the Reno, NV area, there aren’t many new apartment starts, and with tech jobs coming from CA, there’s going to be a shortage, which is driving up purchase prices.

Well, just like every other method, whether it is mailers, watching the mls, "driving for dumps", etc you'll have some success stories and some wastes of time.

Hey there,I am a business owner, located in Europe, and I am looking for a person who is just like me, a newbie investor, who has not invested yet, but has a lot of passion, drive and any business experience to invest (through syndication) in multifamily properties in USA (south, south east and south west).I have been involved in business ventures in the last 5+ years while working in various sectors, including marketing, aerospace and defense and e-learning.

Most people typically make a good 30min drive.

You seem to have a lot of DRIVE AND THE ABILITY TO GET THINGS DONE.

I've run the numbers on homes in our price range within a 3hr drive radius of our zip and they just don't make sense as rental units.I'm fluent in Spanish so other than the financing problem maintaining a rental in Costa Rica vs another market in the USA that requires a flight is fairly comparable from my perspective.Its funny because buying a sub 70k house anywhere in the US would be so easy for us.

Strict rent control policies mean that investors can't buy a dilapidated property, refurbish it, and drive rents up.

The basic membership is an easy way to test drive the organization for not much cash. 

Then if in X years the mortgage rates go back up to 5 or 6% it will drive down the property prices because suddenly people can't afford as much house because the rates are no longer 1% like now.