It is a beautiful area and the people here are wonderful.Mobile is poised for economic growth and the future looks bright especially with the arrival of Airbus that is expecting to bring at least a thousand new jobs to the area in the next two years.Carrie and I feel like we are in a transition with the kids now grown and doing well on their own.

And nothing will make my confidence grown stronger and believe your system is the easiest and most profitable on the market than finding out you want me to give up 50 hours listening to audiobooks and watching you opt to settle for a fraction of the total profits your're claiming your system will earn me in the form of payment for the course rather than the uncertainty of what it might actually make in reality

The geography is much different than So Cal and as others have mentioned you really can't parse out areas by zip code like you can in LA.I think you need to work backward in your investment purchase and know that the rental sweet spot last year was $1500/mo and in the past 6 months has grown to $1700/mo.

But what if the market has grown 3% for the last five years?

My business partner great up in Lubbock and my wife is a Texas Tech grad, so I have grown to know and love Lubbock.

For now, the outcome is that we have grown the value of this property tremendously.

My timeframe is 5+ years so I’m hoping there is continued growth in the area similar to how the RTP area has grown over time.

Supply and demand for short-term rentals have grown exponentially, thanks to companies like airbnb and homeaway.

He's only into residential multis for now, but he may be trainable.New agents, get out there and shake the bushes and have a specialty or focus would be my little $.02Steve having grown up in a real estate brokerage business and owning 3 of them. 

If your going to be passive, you may as well get a loan and start building equity so that in 20 years it's paid off and now your 250K has grown to over 1 million plus.