You can have the best caller with the best pattern interrupt who is highly skilled but if they are calling a list that has been beaten to death by every call center and all the other investors out there, it won’t matter.

Hone your Excel skills by creating pro-formas to practice your 1% rule underwriting while never touring a single property 4.

The good news is that in cities like Berkeley with aggressive rent control, there is always a shortage of available rental units (the rent board bureacrats constantly find ways to perpetuate the housing shortage upon which their jobs depend).

I’m still bullish on housing due to a massive shortage.

But there’s only so much juice you can squeeze out of a portfolio.Interest rates are coming down and activity will increase in 2025, though the housing shortage is keeping prices elevated.So what can investors do?

(Keyword research, competitor research, surveys, speaking to prospects on how they heard)If your research proves that there is demand, I would recommend you  to either hire a good agency who has proven track record in your industry or  hiring a fulltime  employee with relevant seo skills who can manage this.SEO/Paid ads with consultants or agency would be challenging as the results depends on various things such as your website, market, content, offer etc.

Quote from @Shoaib Ali Chaudhary: There are investors out there with money and knowledge of numbers, but no skills with a hammer.

So, the total parcel should be worth $750,000 - $900,000 before building the new duplexes.My local housing market: In a small city of 33,000 growing at 1% a year, constrained by a housing shortage.

Then skills, personality, etc. won’t matter as much.

I'm here to learn and enhance my skills for better real estate deals and flipping houses.