This can help you gain experience and start to network and develop a team of people who can help you invest in future deals.  

Lenders get paid at closing.Consider developing a better process to find and vet your lenders, Torianne.

In the future, we aim to get into fixer-uppers, development, etc., but for now, we like to only consider semi-stabilized (with minimal deferred maintenance) or fully stabilized, cash-flowing properties. 

I currently do Business Development for our property management company and work with all of the new owners and properties.

Essentially, I own 1% of a piece of land there that RAD plans on developing over the next few years.

Avg Dom should be less than 20 days- if you look at development in certain areas of cape , there are a good a mount of multi-family coming in .

You could put in a range of numbers for purchase price and closing costs, renovation expenses, and expected returns and you could very quickly get a range of projected return on investments (although an excel spreadsheet could easily do this as well), but I'm sure as technology develops we will see even more sophistication in AI's ability to assist in deal analyzing.

Eventually you'll start developing relationships with people in the market that will bring you off market deals, but they have to believe that you can close the deal.

Now I own a thriving property management business, run a real estate team helping other investors learn how to grow and scale their portfolios, I have my own modest investment portfolio and have two development projects going at the moment.

Check out some of things happening in Detroit in 2024:https://michiganchronicle.com/2024/01/03/major-developments-that-will-define-detroit-in-2024/Your first question shouldn't be WHERE to invest (that is #2 question), but HOW you will invest!