I would wager a guess than any town of ~60,000 or less people may have less agents per capita or at the very least they be easier to edge out than the streamlined agencies in big cities.

problem is I live in California so rental properties aren't cash flowing like one would need but my plan is to flip properties locally, and parlay that money into rental properties out of state.

I now need to parlay my virtual RE experience into a real one.BTW, Phoenix is a lot bigger than it looked on google maps.

As you have rightly said though insurers know the odds as they pertain to large segments of the population and they wager in a way that they rarely are unprofitable.Great discussion all parties. 

Hello All, I'm a new member here at BP and I'm looking to turn my starter home into a rental to help parlay this into additional properties and my next home.

I've thought a lot about this and my goal is to be a part time investor full time attorney now and eventually parlay real estate into full time and legal work part-time.  

Any stories about people buying rental properties with cash outright, and then parlaying the cash flow into the next property?  

I currently work as director-level major gifts fundraiser for a non-profit here, but am hoping to parlay some of my skills to a career in real estate.My mother has worked as a real estate agent for a majority of my life (in TX), even starting her own company / brokerage six years ago, so I've grown up on the fringes of the real estate community.

I would wager that if you were the seller, we would be exchanging high-fives, rather than terse comments.2.

@Cathie Kovacs Considering a HUGE amount of the code written for most tech companies comes out of India, I would wager that the bookkeepers there are just fine.