Be aware of the current market trends in your area, which can influence selling times and prices.

Post regularly to update us on market trends, deals you're analyzing, and any opportunities you think would benefit investors.

The reason I like the southeast is that I feel there's population growth in that region and long-term trends of people moving there, not because it's where I live or prefer to be personally although there are parts of the southeast I do certainly love and enjoy.You don't need an operating loss to get tax benefits with depreciation and mortgage interest writeoffs, I'm not sure why someone would ever take on an operating loss for tax benefits, that makes no sense.

if it is in that bad of shape I would venture to say at best insurance would prorate. 

Despite current unemployment rates maintaining below 5%, the recent rise from 3.8% to 4.2%(recently revised to 4.1%) is significant, especially when considering wage growth adjusted for inflation.Over the last few years, the median household income has dropped by 7.2% when adjusted for inflation (and this isn't even considering volatile food and energy prices), a troubling trend given that inflation has outstripped income growth.

I’d love to hear your thoughts on how it's shaping our market.Looking forward to connecting, learning from, and contributing to this community!

It's a small sample size so far but may serve as insight for near future demand trend.

I think long term future trends will continue to support affordable real estate markets. 

A couple of them look renovated or in decent shape from photos. 

Factors such as competition, food trends, lack of management, ingress etc, can close these stores.