I am based in Austin, TX right now and the market is a bit inflamed so I'm considering surrounding areas such as Cedar Park, Round Rock, Pflugerville, etc.

It's not terribly difficult, and there are great tools on the website (sample tenant applications, tenant screening tips, etc) if you poke around the tools tab at the top.A couple pointers:  be aware of tenant anti-discrimination laws.  

When you are fortunate to have a long-term tenant move out, then you will need to plan on spending a chunk on a turnover to update the apartment to make it attractive enough to command market rent.Your vacancy rate will be the amount of time it takes you to get your unit ready.The politics in the area is rather anti-landlord.  

@Blake Antis the main thing you need to remember about BRRRR is it will only work when your all in costs (purchase, rehab, closing costs, etc.) equals 70% of ARV.  

Some of you may know about Councilman Kenyon McDuffie's Airbnb legislation to curb some business practices in the District of Columbia. This is not new news.But I recently attended a community meeting where one of the...

@Justin ShanahanBP is somewhat anti-guru as you can basically learn everything real estate related here. 

Just reading through some of the problems that landlords have in some of these anti-investor states, makes me not want to ever do business anywhere else but here in Tennessee.  

There are no anti-flipping rules for USDA other than the lender should ensure the appraisal is strongly supported by validated comps in the area.

In fact, our founding fathers would probably say that anyone who believes that America should be a "Christian nation" was actually being anti-American.

I'm also anti social.