In Las Vegas they decided it has to be away form others, have sound monitoring equipment, ban parties, AND it has to be your primary home that you live in WHILE it’s rented out .

However, let’s go with the scenario that you rent and HELOC the Las Cruces home.  

They were a hard money / private mortgage lender out of Las Vegas doing about $30 million annually.

When you researched markets like Austin las Vegas Miami, those markets have higher land cost and are more cyclical in nature tend to have larger price swings compared to regions with lower land costs.

As I’m sure you know, Las Vegas is SUPER cheap compared to most of California, Miami, or NYC.

I now live in Las Vegas but still have a B&B and real estate company down there and go back 5x per year.

However there were other markets like Detroit, las vegas, much of arizona, much of the midwest that had large loss of rental income from a combination of higher vacancy and falling rent.  

Our investor services business in Las Vegas has operated for over 16 years, and we always encourage clients to visit, especially for their first property.ReferencesEven with references, unless you know the area well and have real estate experience, you should see the property firsthand.

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