The rent growth reported checks out; we're seeing similar stats across a lot of the major secondary markets.The impact that COVID has had in pushing primary market residents (NYC, LA), especially young people, to the next tier gateway cities (Atlanta, Charlotte, Austin, etc.) can't be understated, as the urbanization trend continues but folks are having harder times justifying pandemic NYC, so instead they're competing on a fixed number of in these gateway cities.

Maybe no double digit boom but also no double digit bust.This has kept Indy (and much of the Midwest) off the radar from many institutional buyers who instead are sticking to primarily/gateway markets and faster growing markets in the Sunbelt.For example, at the Apartment Strategies Outlook conference at NMHC last year there were long presentations on markets across the country, and besides Chicago which is unrepresentative of most Midwest markets, the Midwest was not mentioned once - and that's fine by me. 

Hooks right into the line and reports individual unit usage to a gateway.  

I wouldn't say it's "low hanging fruit" - but it is a great, accessible gateway into the industry.

This will be a gateway question.

The cities are becoming increasingly appealing for investment opportunities and are competing with larger "gateway markets" such as Los Angeles, New York City or San Francisco, for those dollars.The other cities on the “rising star” list are Austin, Atlanta, Charlotte, Dallas, Miami, Nashville and Raleigh.The line between gateway cities and growth markets such as Denver is likely to become more blurred in the near future.

For Pearland, I have used Gateway Mortgage as well as Pearland State Bank.

Fine tuning one niche will gateway you to other investing strategies.Investor friendly realtors are becoming more abundant in todays markets!

They also accomplish different goals, and depending on what your ultimate goal is one or all may or may not help you get there.Wholesaling is not a gate way to flipping and flipping is not a gate way to rentals, they can be used as a tool to get you to a milestone along the way but they are not required. 

Kyle Deaton - Gateway Mortgage - He was fantastic.ReBelle Realty was awesome to work with.