I'm fairly new in the industry as well, and most of the sources I've checked at first require a subscription (CoStar, WSJ), but I found this newsletter called Zeroflux Real Estate who consolidate real estate news from such sites.

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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.

That drive is what sets apart winners in this game. 

I took my thrashing as you know in 2020  I do know some of my clients that sell turnkey have been keeping the houses and doing BRRRR instead of selling them to investors that part of the market has slowed signficantly for many in that industry.

It is a well established belief in the financial industry that there is an inherent conflict of interest when financial advisors are compensated on sales commission.  

With all the resources available today to research and learn about the industry, I’m surprised this “easy money” mindset persists.To me, real estate is far from passive or simple.

They have no 2-factor authentication and don't email you to confirm that you want to update your login, both of which I'd consider industry standard these days.

When I see deals that do pencil for an investor, the LTV is 60% or less (I deal with mostly retail and industrial). 

Hi All,I’m excited to join this platform and connect with other professionals in the real estate industry.