I have 40 years of experience in the home design and construction industry, a ton of skills, and talent.

Hello everyone,I am a small investor looking to finance my project.Context: we found couple of good single family lots in a subdivision and also worked with a builder to design a house for us.

So people are still traveling in spades, more than ever, maybe just not to the same places, making this likely a local thing.More to @Jerry Calhoun's point on international travel being the hot trend now, the Booking.com CEO was just on CNBC giving an interview and he said that in the past two years their bookings revenue in the US has very much outpaced European bookings (which have lagged coming out of covid), but is seeing much larger growth in Europe bookings this year.

In theory you could hire a virtual designer, order everything to a warehouse, and have labor install. 

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Average Rental Rates, Q1, 3br, 2ba, Single Family2024: $16822023: $16302022: $1523Average Rental Rates, Q1, 2bedrooms2024: $11372023: $10792022: $1102-John Williams, Property ManagerClarksville, TN

This town is very small in population (population trend not growing) although has a community college that is less than half mile walking distance from ANY of the properties (community college population is growing at WELL above avg rate(dorm rate 850mth))

I'm not a flipper, agent, designer, etc and not really up to speed on the latest and greatest. 

I have since put everything back on ebay and have sold it all, getting most of my money back. ( Very proud of myself for figuring out a way for a broke *** red neck idiot, to get basically a free Real estate investing education which so far has made me a buck or two,)    :)     Even today when I feel I need to get current in trends and techniques I go to ebay for some easy listening material, but I've found that most of it is just rehashed fluff from the origional gurus from my early years.