With values rising double digit percentages each year for a lot of reasons, even as value growth slows, rents will eventually catch up.

@Aisha Young I have a close friend who is a digital nomad and invests in US real estate.

I am starting out in real estate and wanted to read some books around real estate finance, validating deals, calculating returns on investments etc.Are there any books or digital material that are a good starting point to learn about the financial aspects of real estate investing?

That was before I lost far over the low end of 7 digits on my other diversified investments. 

@Jean SantiagoHi Jean, Welcome to BP, I would usually mention meetups we one of the best resources to meet likeminded people, but until the restrictions of meeting in groups is lifted it would likely be digital education and some have made zoom meetups a thing now.

Digital tours will be where you will excel.

Has anyone tried digital staging on their rentals, does it work, and can you find a free software to do it?

And, sometimes people respond without reading or worse, are complete idiots and take what you said entirely out of context or, maybe you just thought they did until you go back and read what you posted and discover you were not very clear in the first place - lol - welcome to the digital world of people.

Aside from providing the basics (ie. listing tool to get the property published to 10+ major sites, scheduling tool to schedule viewings, tenant screening with comprehensive applications -- pulled reports from TransUnion, which include nationwide criminal background checks + credit checks + eviction history, digital lease creation tool, rent collection tool, and maintenance tracking tool), some services also offer your tenants additional capabilities which makes it an easier sell on your end when getting them to transition over (ie. their ability to report on-time rent payments to the credit bureaus; this can create an added incentive for making sure they pay that rent on time).

I attend digital marketing classes Monday- Friday from 9am to 5pm.