For example, in my market, we see MF building permits way down for the last 2-3 years.

Where are your scheduled gross rents and effective rents so far in the last T12 months so we can figure out offense and defensive strategies.These would be the questions we'd go through in planning your steps ahead.

Lastly, agreed 100% with Stuart, you can't go into it using best case scenario assumptions and allocations.

It is a HUGE bummer as an agent to write up an offer to go to a junk property (happened to me last week) to end up pulling out.

Last thing to consider is if you are buying a new home, will you want to do 100% financing and will you have the remaining bonus entitlement to do so.

Seller decided to back out at the last moment for some arbitrary reason and just didn’t show up to closing to sign the docs.

Quote from @Joshua Janus: Cleveland, Ohio is a great market to focus on for cash flow and specific pockets have gone up 2x and upwards of 4x in the last 5-10 years even!

In the last 5 years, we've invested over $300k of savings toward down payments and rehabs. 

Last month, I was projecting to see the inventory numbers rise with seasonality and get a slight bump from Hurricane Helene, but that has proven to not be the case.

Experience in the last 3 years: 9.