I'm all ears for any advice, from broad strategies to specific tactics or tools that have worked for you.

@Garrett Dilley  No, you can't really tell if you zip lock it well.

Here's my biggest lesson - REMEMBER your WHY.FINANCIAL FREEDOM - doesn't necessarily look like having a company with 35 employees, having 8 vertically integrated real estate companies, striving to get another 300 wholesale & rehab deals, and another 1,000 units that year, while locking yourself into 20 zoom meetings a week to run a massive company that now owns YOU.

Im lucky to work in an interactive office environment for a private company, where I have the ear of some successful operators.Everyone learns differently, but without the working experience I now have (and continue to compile, every day), my path to operator would surely be a bit longer. 

So having a big network is the best way to keep your ear to the ground.

Ultimately, we need mortgage rates to move down to improve both affordability (lower monthly payments) and availability (‘freeing up’ previously ‘locked in’ sellers).Drilling down to the city levelThe inventory situation is very different from city to city, and that’s driving divergent pricing trends.

I thought he had been banned from BiggerPockets for doing that, but I guess they just locked the thread and that's all. https://www.biggerpockets.com/forums/51/topics/1155771-seaso...By the way, there was a comment where someone speculated that his answers were the same as ChatGPT because ChatGPT learned the answers from his post. 

Nope says the driver with a lock and chain in is hand.

If it closes UP today in California time, rates might be UP tomorrow (45-60% of the time), and you've got an hour or two from when Wall St closes to lock your rate if doing business with a Best Coast mortgage lender whose lock desk isn't going to close for a few hours (assuming the LO takes your call at 5:15 pm...) from when Wall Street closes on the East Coast.

As for Bandit signs....are you competing against many other signs, or do you have a lock on your market?