I'm new to the real estate game and wanted to try out the Omaha area since I'm stationed at Offutt AFB.

Then the buyer walked because he actually didn't have his financing lined up so it was all a game. 

it's a volume game. 

As you have mentioned in the past, you should not put more than 10-15% of your money in one investment - so if you have $500k and want to throw $50k ok - but it still hurts. if its your first and only 50k, there are plenty of other opportunities out there to get in the game for lessFor many - Goes back to greed and FOMO as well, last few years everyone and their brother wanted to jump in on the STR and MF space because of these great returns - no different than NFT's and bitcoin before that, but when something moves up quickly, it typically drops pretty quickly as well.

The marketing isnt that important in my opinion but the professional photo/ video is a huge game changer and I dont believe that someone is going to make much profit at .5% on the listing side.

This is why you need to do a ton of due diligence on them and make sure they have skin and the game and something to lose.

Probably not much better time to try out the rental game and if it doesn’t work well, or we don’t like it we can still sell and keep the capital gains exemption.

Play the long game and focus on rent and home price appreciation.

Not know what Eddie Speed is all about, is there a game plan you have for notes?

Alternatively i could go for being a real estate broker and try to get experience in actual real estate without putting too much of my own skin in the game.