If you're looking to invest your hard-earned money, I'd also encourage you to actually drive through the areas designated as the STR zone.

Investments from CA tech companies is driving job and population growth. 

I would test one as MTR and maybe one as STR, depending on your market.For those of us who know Sacramento, there's actually quite a lot of information to go on in here.

I'm an investor here in Columbus OH myself and have seen the city's solid and steady growth with strong economic fundamentals driving the market like major companies moving here (Meta, Intel, Google, Amazon, etc), job growth, and population growth.

The agent "worked" for 2 hours at the most including drive time to the closing.

Rae, I would keep checking the sites including FSBO, FaceBkMarktplace, and driving neighborhoods. 

Once you complete your class and pass the test, you will start looking for brokerages.

The course is long and test is difficult so make sure you are committed.

I invested $1,000 to test it out and get $10/month in distributions.  

Once I reached that goal, the drive for the next one felt just as strong.Reminder to enjoy the journey and that it’s not about the destination.Every goal you reach, you will enjoy it for a short time, then be on to the next one.How do you balance striving to do better and for more while understanding that it will never be enough?