@Lauren MerendinoI strongly believe that your chosen market should be somewhere that you can go to in person / have strong personal knowledge of / have family or a network in already.  

Houston is a great market for JVs, wishing you both success! 

While I do maintain a relatively modest percentage of my assets in money market instruments, corporate debt funds, and high dividend stocks, I remain most comfortable with the investments I specialize in and know best.  

I Can only realistically get $1600-$1700 a month renting my house based on the market.

As well as utilizing them to market and sell your properties.

Buy on market, nothing wrong with that.

The rental market is a dynamic environment, and one constant is change.

I invest in Boise, ID and do quite a few BRRRRs, LTRs and STRs- varying degrees of success depending on how much equity we can force and the type of back end financing we can find, but the tax benefits are great and it's a rapidly growing market and Idaho is probably the most landlord friendly state in the nation. 

In the same amount of work I could find an undervalued deal in my market through existing channels.

Hi BP, I am looking to invest the OKC market long term hold real estate.