While this will be a notable milestone, the market is likely to achieve this feat because the sharp drop in housing inventory stems back to summer 2020, when the pandemic-era housing market began to heat up as mortgage rates tumbled and buyers made up for a lost spring.

My target is medical/business professionals.  

Here’s our OPINION for the Metro Detroit market (use as a template for your target area!)

Often it's not intentional, it's that without regularity and familiarity, the target moves. 

You now know you must sell to investor for 110k to achieve a 75% deal. 6.

Despite the challenges, we achieved a substantial profit.

You are not targeting those people.  

Despite the challenges, we achieved a substantial profit.

David Greene wrote "Long Distance Real Estate Investing" which gives you a great tutorial, but I suggest looking at deals in the Midwest or the Southeast to allow your portfolio to get a good base of cash flow, and then once you are ready for some more appreciation focused deals, you can change your target markets.

for the previous 3 offers it was Identical.I don't want to be stuck waiting on the sidelines so with the market being this hot I am a little confused about where to go from here, should I start seeking out wholesalers, doing direct mail campaigns, targeting older listings, hunt more in off market or just keep submitting offers?