Following a pandemic-driven boom in 2021-2022, characterized by soaring prices, rapid sales, and a sharp drop in inventory, the market began to cool in 2023 due to rising mortgage rates and economic uncertainty.

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How cool!

Cool, Flipping or Landlording?

Thank you. it sounds like you want to shoot for appreciation and equity buy down first, getting positive cash flow as a bonus if you can.

A: "neighbors are super cool, they come over all the time to have fires in the backyard."

We saw this happening a little bit a few years ago when many properties were getting multiple offers, but the market has been cooling rapidly to more of a buyers market lately (in my location at least YMMV).

First invested a solid chunk of money into a flipping mentorship, listened to every BP Rookie episode ever made, more podcasts, more books, more phone calls, and finally landed a really cool position working for an investor in my area.

Lucky for you, I am knowledgable on military & investor related topics and its cool that this is a hybrid question.