@William Vreeland, Nashville to Knoxville is a 3 hr drive, so unless you family is consistently in Knoxville, I am not sure how having family in one city is beneficial to investing in another.  

Congrats on your growth in the real estate market!

To accelerate your real estate portfolio growth, leverage equity through Home Equity Lines of Credit (HELOCs) and cash-out refinancing.

I think it was a double whammy when the fed rate was boosted from nothing to 5-5.25 and the fed was also selling a bunch of the bonds they had bought before to drive mortgage rates down. 

Premium increases are rippling through the market; the state is also always going to be financially strapped/high tax due to union pension commitments from past generations and the high tax, high services nature of Chicago.I'd highly recommend getting on a plane and driving around before you buy anything there. 

The interactions were mainly me sending places I wanted to go look at, and making offers with very little guidance from them, ultimately only to lose out on the bid.All in all, I've learned that being this early in my investing journey, I need an agent who is not only familiar with investing (or is an investor) but will reciprocate the same dedication and drive. 

Each deal has contributed to my growth and expanded my risk tolerance.

A few tactics that come to mind are: - creating a single listing page (landing page) that captures contact info - paid social ads that drive to the single listing page What's the perfect use case for a single listing page?

I've had success with letters, driving for dollars, and off market deals.

They bought 72 houses in six months at the age of 23 and now drive their Lamborghini to their castle where they party with P-Diddy and drink champagne all day.