Pensacola has a lot of potential, and I’ve seen investors do really well in the area with both long-term and short-term rentals.Since you’re just getting started, here are a few tips that might help:Know Your Market: Pensacola’s mix of military families, college students, and tourists means there’s a steady demand for rentals.

I enjoy college football, video games, and lifting weights. 

I am currently going to community college as well as in the process of getting my real estate license.

For example college rentals generate some of the highest ROI of properties I come across in New Jersey but it depends on the school and location of property.

The great thing about living in a high cost of living area is that your salary / wages are hopefully also very high.If you are a new college grad, I would focus the next 1-3 years on increasing your salary as much as possible(gain new skills, new certifications, change employers, etc).Once you make more money, you can easily get in a position to buy a property on a more frequent basis.Best of luck!

Hail is the big culprit, tornadoes to a lesser degree. 

Out of state, southeast and midwest college/mid-sized towns.

Kids are out of the houseand college is covered.

The only thing that bests fear is courage and we only need a mustard seed of that to get things going...People often spend money on college and never go in to the field they spent that money on...the greatest lessons and the ones most remembered are learned 'on the job'.Wishing you more good news in the future and an exceptional 2025. 

“It’s just an entire ripple effect.”Not your ordinary REITDuring the Way of the Renaissance Man podcast interview, Mendenhall told host Woods that he came to real estate after an early career coaching college baseball, a grueling vocation that he said left him feeling burnt out.Mendenhall did his coaching at the University of San Francisco, according to his biography on RAD’s website.