Follow the advice you have been provided by great people and real estate legends below, especially from the likes of @Jonathan Green and @Nathan Gesner and you will buy your first rental property within the next 3 months.Goodluck.

You should take advice from experienced people here who have not motivation to lie to you.

I'm going to try to post snippets of things I've learned this past year as a way of paying it forward and gratitude for all I've learned and keep learning via this community. Today's lesson: why I won't use VRBO Pre-A...

I only got 2 people from there and they both seemed a bit shady.

Welcome to BP - great contingent of people in the Dallas area both here digitally and in the in-person meetup community!

People will always vacation.  

Many people are only making $50k or so on $800k-$1M properties. 

What have any of these people done since the high rates?

Mostly people with minimal RE experience are adding a single ADU and they often make that choice based on cash flow without taking into account the negative equity position.  

If you google anything regarding mortgage rates or refinancing, you only see lending tree and rocket mortgage or some brokers that will send your information to 1000 people.