I am an out of country investor and I am very new to all this.

You must not know anything about the on-market business or you would understand that it is normal because most real estate agents don't do anything.Not that this matters, but my team was on the RealTrends Top Teams in the Country list 2021, 2022, and 2023.

It's a group of MTR hosts and aspiring MTR hosts from across the country.

This eastern tenn area is a different beast.

Along with risks of natural disasters some areas of the country are also more litigious or even have more uncertain jury pools and that can also play into insurance pricing.

Of the 200+ clients we've worked with, fewer than 10 were local; all the rest lived in other states or countries.

Ok, how about giant swaths of coal and steal country?

I grew up in England, UK I struggled to find a profitable market and working a 9-5 job, the hassle of living on payslip to payslip had inevitably led me to venture outside the country.

Regarding finding "deals", read below:The Real Estate Crash of 2008-2010 caused real estate prices to crash across the country - but didn't affect rent amounts.

In 2022 the rents increased 12.1% year over year which was the 3rd highest in the entire country per https://www.axios.com/local/cleveland/2023/02/14/cleveland-rent-prices.