This market now offers not only excellent cash flow but also strong appreciation, creating well-rounded investment opportunities.The 60 strongest housing markets heading into 2025 - Fast Company

HUD performed extensive due diligence on us, and had to approve us as buyer's and our management company and mangers.

That's how I started, with a company called Flip More Deals (currently called the Growth Collective) they were very hands on and helped me through the entire process and connected me with a lender and gap funder, very hands on you should check them out.

@Kieran Collings - I'm an investor, flipper, and own and run a local property management company.  

I think broader consumer taste is killing malls, which includes online shopping, but also even where people are choosing to live and how they are spending their time/money, more broadly.I worked for a company that bought a failing mall back in 2012 (online shopping was "killing retail" then too), redeveloped most of it into more open air power center and sold.  

New companies like Intel, Amazon, and Google are also investing here.

I know this is hindsight but when ever you lend money you should get a Lenders title policy and give escrow instructions to the title company that your loan is to be in first position.

I offered to buy the property from the $28B foreign company which kept them from having to tear down the buildings to mitigate the vagrant problem and also from their obligation to pay the rail road for the long term lease.

Meanwhile, our current President is shuffling communist funds through shell companies.

The other quesiton i have is if private equity is starting to get involved in this market, companies like Apollo & Carlyle, does that change your feelings about getting involved in the space?