By staying informed and adaptable, investors can find opportunities in both booming and challenging markets.Overall, with careful planning, thorough research, and a strategic mindset, real estate investing can be a fulfilling journey towards financial success and stability.

I have about 30k right now mostly in a HYSA and am planning to just hang on, I afford everything with my salary and roommates.

To achieve this, I’m planning to scale rapidly by performing a couple of syndications to acquire a larger portfolio.I currently have a portfolio of 17 properties, but to justify labor costs and create a sustainable structure, I need to expand quickly.

He plans on having 2 roommates. 

It’s great that you’re now planning to scale your real estate investments.

If you have a solid ARV AND a great GC / team that you trust to do good work, consistently, and can stick to the timeline planned, even with hard money you will still make money at 75 or 80%, albeit a little less than at 70%. 

, it's still highly unlikely that an appraiser would have given value to this bathroom in any case, so we're not losing anything from an appraised value standpoint.Seller should be more than OK with it once you educate them on the fact that of all the offers they are evaluating, yours is the only one willing and able to execute a plan to close on-time, without delay, in spite of the flagrantly illegal and unpermitted bathroom.

I recommend reading the book traction and following EOS - they have a one page business plan that is awesome to follow. any planner can work it's a matter of creating the plan and how to monitor and follow through with it which eos teaches

But I plan to go there to see and know the city in general and different neighborhoods in particular.

I can imagine it is considerably more work as well as I plan to manage myself.