I heard that it did very well during the pandemic / snow season.

Winston-Salem's most recent figure for GDP is at $38.5 Billion, in 2018 they were at $34.9 Billion, decent growth considering the pandemic.

I utilized the pandemic to make HCOL wages in a LCOL area and am trying to take the delta and put it into something which generates cash flow because my retirement is essentially fully funded. 

My current 90 home project in Oregon was like that Farmer owned it for decades And when we bought it for 7. 2 mil cash they did not even do a 1031 just paid their cap gain and called it a day.www.ivyridgeestatescanby.com  is the project and its been a winner.. albeit a few years behind schedule with pandemic and lumber and every other impediment.. ( could not get garage doors for a while :)  ) So hopefully if anyone actually reads this and has interest they will see the benefit of learning how to go into the cities look at long range planning get to know the long range planners identify movement we can all do it as small investors we do not have to be big corporations 

Things for the most part are back to normal and have been a while compared to the pandemic but the c and d grade crowd got killed during that. 

During the pandemic, I had no issue with getting rent on time.

It’s because the pandemic allowed them to stay for 18 months unpaid and another separate occasion they quit paying.

Maintenance in general have gone up along with everything else, for example, paint costs 60-70% more now than pre-pandemic. 

With interest rates going up from the lowest in 30-year history of 3% to 7%, many people sentimentally feel that this is not a good time to buy a home and are postponing home buying decisions until after interest rates drop down.Let me explain why this is a wrong way to think about buying a house and why now is a great time to enter the real estate market.Reason #1 is that interest rates in your lifetime will never going to be as low as they were during pandemic.

You got your house pre-pandemic at a steal and refinanced at those incredibly low rates, allowing you to undercut the competition significantly.