@Jonathan Greene At risk of getting sucked in here, I did go ahead and click on @Scott Meech's post here: https://www.biggerpockets.com/forums/925/topics/1217313-dete...I often agree with what you have to say, but in this case, I have  to disagree. 

Housing affordability is definitely a hot topic in Texas these days.

Subtract depreciation, explained here:https://www.biggerpockets.com/forums/51/topics/1121063-expla...Because of Step 2, depreciation, many cash-flowing rentals end up showing $0 net profit, resulting in no tax increase and sometimes in tax decrease.

If you need to do Skip Tracing, mailers, and "Propstream", you don't understand the concept of motivated sellers, and that is why so many of you struggle.If you do not understand the concept of motivated sellers, how do you expect to be successful in finding them.I recommend you read my post here:https://www.biggerpockets.com/forums/93/topics/1215116-all-i...

Here's what I learned, my biggest gripes house hacking, and what I regret: https://www.biggerpockets.com/forums/922/topics/1133476-hous...

I see no magnifying glass, i’ve also wondered this even on my desktop it’s ultra impossible to search the thousands of posts for a single topic. 

Theres a lot more on the topic so I’d recommend searching past forum posts on getting started as an agent.

Piggybacking off this thread from several years ago: https://www.biggerpockets.com/forums/104/topics/994025-flock...Wanted to see if there were any updated opinions?

@Ed HoffmanThere are tens of thousands of posts on here about this specific topic that I recommend you read

I thought I would bump this topic back to the top based on the fed cutting the federal funds rates a .250%.