Purchase price: $690,000 Cash invested: $172,500 Took a gamble on a larger single family home in an up and coming master planned community.

Plan on staying married no matter how rocky it gets, work through it, it's worth it. 

Just ensure you’ve got a solid plan for reinvestment and aren’t rushing into the next deal too quickly.

The other markets are in southern states.My buyers are typically the "trades".  

I'm curious when you were planning commissioner, how long did these land swap deals take to hammer out?

Hi All,I know this question probably comes up often, but I wanted to ask: if you're using QuickBooks to manage your rental properties, which plan are you using?

Generally larger commercial properties and shopping centers are easier to classify with hard and fast rules, but to the points above the residential areas really move very quickly and have way more nuance than most people care to admit.zip codes are generally way too large for my liking at least in my market to provide any kind of insights other than macro level economics but even then highways or rivers that cut through a zip code can end up with totally different trade areas.we can get pretty granular with cellphone data and with grocery center data to understand the trade areas and their true boundaries, but that kind of data pull is generally only cost effective for investors doing larger scale projects or developments, and honestly we still just end up getting on the ground and feeling it out, so I generally tell people that the money is better spent on a plane ticket and weekend trip in the area you are looking rather than any kind of "trade area" level data studies.and generally B class in 1 area means something different than another. 

But be careful with day trading.

I’m just currently in the planning phase to see what the best path going forward is.

@Arthur Savery, This can be a great game plan called a diversification exchange.