If you’re not paying cash for properties, get pre-approved for an investor loan to understand your available credit.Time FrameThe shorter your timeline to achieve your goal, the more upfront capital and credit you’ll need.End GoalMost investing goals focus on replacing their current income, like $5,000/Mo.

For example, two of my goals are to achieve a certain percentage for my IRR (internal rate of return), and a certain % for my cash on cash return. 

I have to caution would-be investors: Don't count on the returns they say they expect to achieve.

Going to property tours inspired me to obtain my real estate license in the state of Georgia; and look further into property investing and helping others achieve their real estate goals.

While algorithms can analyze data at scale, real estate isn’t just about numbers—it’s about nuances and the most important component of real estate is understanding its value, and that to me (maybe I am old school) but can only be done by physically visiting and walking the property.So for me, factors like local market conditions, property inspections, and borrower credibility can’t be fully captured in a formula.

Does anyone here have any idea (based on data), if the home prices will be going up or down in 2025?

I'm unsure which focus would help me scale my portfolio and achieve my goals more efficiently. 

ARV Potential: Where can we expect to achieve higher ARVs?

Generally larger commercial properties and shopping centers are easier to classify with hard and fast rules, but to the points above the residential areas really move very quickly and have way more nuance than most people care to admit.zip codes are generally way too large for my liking at least in my market to provide any kind of insights other than macro level economics but even then highways or rivers that cut through a zip code can end up with totally different trade areas.we can get pretty granular with cellphone data and with grocery center data to understand the trade areas and their true boundaries, but that kind of data pull is generally only cost effective for investors doing larger scale projects or developments, and honestly we still just end up getting on the ground and feeling it out, so I generally tell people that the money is better spent on a plane ticket and weekend trip in the area you are looking rather than any kind of "trade area" level data studies.and generally B class in 1 area means something different than another. 

If you achieved this by paying all cash, then you are losing money.