Starting in REI can already be a little nerve racking, so I recommend doing your first deal on the easiest mode you can to build your confidence and build your skill set.If I had to do it all over again, I'd buy a personal home with 3-5% down then repeat every 12-18 months.

Ideally you'd want within a few blocks, maybe no more than half a mile for the comp to be accurate

Why pass it to an Ai for a half-baked summary when everything it told you (Median & Avg data only) is available on RedFin, with real data, for free?

I've found from experience that a tile job 90 percent done is only half done.  

If you do, then you're missing out on half the reason househacking is so powerful.

We just put an offer in on a riverfront one bedroom cottage on a half acre property in Oregon that we expect to be accepted, here's how I plan on purchasing the property with less than the cost of an apartment rental deposit in SoCal:Purchase price is $330k as a FHA Primary Purchase with 3.5% down ($11,550) and a 2.5% ($8250) seller concession towards closing costs.

No one can time the market, the best advice in REI is winter against springs but even then if you want to just buy X amount per half of year, X amount per quarter, or X amount per two years--cool.

Half of nothing is nothing . 

Tisch Center of Hospitality, has released a series of CapEx studies showing hotel capital expenditure spending has been half of pre-pandemic amounts in period 2020-2023.The impending debt crunch faced by commercial real estate over the next 18 months has also been widely reported. 

I wish I could have started buying in 2012 but unfortunately I was a broke college kid and did not know about real estate investing.Personally I still think Columbus is going to continue to explode - "Columbus’ population grew 1.1% in the second half of last year, which is faster than any other city in the U.S."