Media often presents us as rich fat retired on a beach white guys (real estate publications don’t help this nor do blogs like BP with headlines like “Retire in 12 months with $1,000,000!”

The market is saturated, at least in my area.  

KC is an extremely competitive and saturated market and I do not expect to find many deals until I get my foot in the door.

So if you are buying smaller properties and the STR nightly market is saturated with condos or smaller properties then you need to step up your design.

Sarasota is a good spot to invest, but you have to know which areas are too saturated with deals and which are open.

Sniping the ultra-motivated lists is an option, but very saturated and likely you will have large gaps in your pipeline and dealflow.

I started contacting real estate agents in Cleveland and Indianapolis but was told that these markets are heavily saturated with investors trying to do the same thing as me and it would be almost impossible to find a deal even though I have an all in budget of $150K cash to start off with.

If I can't trust what they are saying, its a big fat PASS for me.

Is the area overly saturated with investors now? 

@Jeremy RowanA friend and I were considering doing some direct mail for the purpose of flipping but reconsidered after seeing the saturation of the market in DFW.