March marked the largest one-month increase ever recorded in the more than 25-year history of the Zillow Home Value Index — surpassing even the housing run-up preceding the Great Recession — and the 10.6% rise from March 2020 was the largest annual increase in 15 years.But that view ignores the fact that the housing market doesn't operate in a vacuum, and is driven by the interactions of a number of relatively simple but critically important fundamentals — including supply and demand, financial conditions and technological advancement.

Using this method I am guaranteed to hit my target of X cashflow against my specific capital value.Just looking at monthly cash flow in a vacuum, without monitoring how much of a return you're making on your initial investment, I don't understand how you can measure progress.

Generally u want a full time agent.. part time agents are not as plentiful as a few decades ago when you had a lot of firemen/Teachers/ airline pilots  etc  that would do RE part time.I am not a full time agent but sometimes i take on one client .. and the flip side is that i am lazer focused on helping that one client as I have no other clients to service and my daily bread is not buttered with sales commissions.

I am willing to travel and/or invest at a distance if necessary -- I work for the airlines and have easy access to travel anywhere in the United States.  

I am willing to travel and/or invest at a distance if necessary -- I work for the airlines and have easy access to travel anywhere in the United States.

we spent an hour vacuuming the home.

I would vacuum up any dust and then apply a concrete crack filler (ie Sakrete).

A great quote I heard from one of the podcasts is "vacuum the truck".

airlines don't keep them.. and of course my credit card proved it but that was not enough.. even though I matched the credit card to hotel stays in the cities i do business and then matched that up to huds and all sorts of business contacts.. power points of presentations i made at reias around the country etc etc.. and other stuff like soft staging my wife buys for her listings.. 

Also sand gets into things so you want to aware of that for interior wood floor finishes, vacuuming.