Would love an opportunity to pick the brain of someone who is seasoned in the game.

It’s a get rich slow game, but if you can be patient and give yourself 5-10 years investing in RE, you’ll be set.

Play games.

In fact, some of the best opportunities in real estate come from properties that others overlook—distressed homes with potential that just need the right investor to bring them back to life.If you’ve been in the game long enough, you know that distressed properties can offer huge upside, but they also come with their own set of challenges.

If you are looking at a 300 unit apartment complex with a $100mm purchase price, then typically you want large, diverse economic, growing cities.If you are buying an Airbnb, well this is a marketing game. 

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I gravitate towards "red states" given the landlord-friendly laws and relative ease of evictions, which unfortunately are unavoidable in the buy and hold game.

Then if you still 100K off, I would start dropping the price in a big way to get to an even playing field. 

As comparison SF got my southern VT 3BR/2BA STR covered at < $1k/yr for 2k/500k + umbrella (albeit with bundled discounts in play).

If you understand the math of it all it should come very clear, the game is NOT best played (1) buying in all cash, (2) buying and sitting on a property for decades on end.