While some investors weathered these challenges better due to diversified portfolios, others, like yourself, felt the impact more acutely with single-property investments.

Everyone will say I'm too conservative, but most of these people on here can't weather a single month of vacancy and/or a true capex problem.

Long story short, if you do this, buy in great locations, hold long term, and make sure that you have plenty of reserves to weather the storm.

Most of these syndication, are typically promoting "the STR market" rather than their actual track record.The moment I clicked "View more details" of their holding , I can see their future booking.My respond was ............ nahhhh, my STR is performing way better for them.You could forecast their revenue by checking future booking.

These help me weather a storm with low STR occupancy numbers like many are facing across the country.Higher insurance rates, STR permit fees, labor costs for repairs and cleaning, regime fees (for condos) make running a profitable STR even more difficult.  

I lived in LA for 17 years and miss it like the dickens (except for the weather!!)

Oh boy, too much to write here, but my forecast for 2024, as of last September, was for prices for residential to be flat on a national level by the end of the year.

You can do a quick search yourself on EXPI as a stock and see what the experts say and forecast for it, also you can see it is profitable unlike a lot of real estate companies recently.

Take a look at current interest rate trends and forecasts.

We reinvest it all back through renovations, acquiring additional properties, or accelerating mortgage payments.We keep minimum 6 month reserves to weather storms.