It says something else deeper is going on when they can't do that.

Here's a deeper dive.Pros of Investing in Your Backyard:Familiarity with the Market: Living in the city gives you innate knowledge of its neighborhoods, schools, and economic drivers.

It's pretty easy to tell you to post 5 reels a week and 2 carousels and use hooks, but that isn't really going to help you.You have to have the deeper discussion of figuring out why you're posting, what it's purpose is, and what your long term goals are.

If the investment has professional administration, you will have access to the answers to those questions, but also much deeper vetting of the sponsor that will include personal background checks covering things like bankruptcy, judgements, litigation, criminal history, and other red flags related to a sponsor that you would want to avoid, plus other items that investors rarely consider like ensuring that the properties are actually titled correctly, property taxes are paid, and insurance is current.

As you progress and get deeper into the game, your liability will naturally increase (that's a good thing).

You'll either drive them deeper underground or they'll spook, the property will be converted to something decent, and then we'll have more homeless and people on government subsidies.It will be as successful as the war on drugs, war on poverty, and war on homelessness.

(Rhetorical question - meant only to provoke deeper thought.)

Most of my work involves large scale commercial projects, but I am delving into buy-and-hold investing in the area.My understanding is that we do have a real estate investing group in the area: https://www.facebook.com/WVREIA/ I unfortunately have not had a chance to go, but planning to do so.

We are on a deeper part of the lake so it runs a bit cooler.

Biggest lesson learned is to dig deeper into renovation numbers.