It was on the open market in May after the pandemic first wave ended and then saw this hit the open market, I knew what it was worth and I knew that the listing agent had it way underpriced.

While I think it's truly awesome how many people have been able to build incredible wealth recently by riding the wave of mass real estate appreciation, the tailwinds of historically low interest rates are behind us so I think going with a low risk strategy like house hacking is 100% the best way to get in the game.

I think you need to look at more leads before switching gears as starting local in an expensive market is great because you can ride the appreciation wave.

Get your wife lots of roses and blow her kisses as you wave her off to work each day.Have you actually sold any properties As a realtor?

I am very new to real estate investing and would like advice on whether now is the time to invest in a SFH or am whether I am simply riding the wave of FOMO from the crazy rise in home prices and rushing to buy?  

Gives you a learning opportunity and you can ride the appreciation wave.

It's just the nature of the market right now. oh, and also, my lender waved the appraisal because he felt I was buying it below market value, woohoo!

In the US real estate + ancillary is about 25% of GDP, so if we shrink that by any percent it will have seismic shock waves in the rest of the economy.

The backlog of cases gives the illusion of a wave of foreclosures.

They chose Taylor because about 30 minutes away and got huge tax breaks over a decade and Austin not too far away to pilfer talent to work at Samsung new facility.Prices likely less than Austin and maybe get in on the ground floor of the up wave of a smaller town landing a big business that might make the area boom.I have a lot of syndicator friends and I am one on the commercial retail side.