With three colleges in Abilene, I think it is a great market for investors.

For context, downtown Alexandria performs super well as a rental market and bringing in $5.5k+ as the monthly rental income if you choose to move out of the househack in the future will be absolutely feasible (depending on the property of course).

I generally look for two things: new homes on the market for sale are they being sold very close to asking price, with short days on markets or not.

The fact is that the real estate market is slow and likely will be until 2027 (Trump said he wants to keep rates where they are at through 2026).

But if you're willing to take a tiny leap of faith, I think the returns are solid, the diligence and the integrity are there, and the states/markets/submarkets and the asset class are thumbs-up.

There are times when the market increases or decreases rapidly.

Purchased a property that needed some work and on the lower end of the market so homes were sitting.

I’ve got two PMs right now but that’s because they’re in different markets

Talk to @Grant Shipman about a possible different way of marketing them to the subgroup who gets it.

The market is tough for everyone, new and experienced.