However the luxury high rise condominium frenzy is still going strong with expected high returns on these pre construction developments.The best advantage for real estate investors right now in Las Vegas would be high rise investments and cashing in on the other investors who purchased without a great deal of capital reserves and purchased properties using adjustable mortgages which are now starting to adjust and most cant afford the new interest rates.If you would like to find out more about our Las Vegas market please go to our website.

Please help me launch my business, I will forever be grateful.

Like Chris noted, most people that launch retail/office/industrial companies learned by working for others for many years first.  

I am attempting to launch my first purchase within Q1 of 2017 with a focus on searching for 3 to 4 unit + properties, but the upstate seems to be slim pickings.  

So glad you've rediscovered Bigger Pockets early in your real estate investing journey...sounds like you've got great experience that will benefit you in big ways when you launch this side hustle. 

I've helped several clients purchase properties in the high desert (Joshua Tree) and the low desert (Palm Springs, Indio, etc) and helped them get their properties launched on Airbnb.First, let's get La Quinta out of the way.

https://www.har.com/content/newsroom/Houston Real Estate Highlights in November • Single-family home sales increased for a sixth consecutive month, surging 25.6 percent year-over-year with 7,990 units sold;• The Days on Market (DOM) figure for single-family homes dropped from 59 to 46;• Total property sales shot up 28.1 percent with 9,660 units sold;• Total dollar volume jumped 43.9 percent to $3.1 billion;• The single-family average price achieved a record high, rising 15.0 percent to $341,765; • The single-family median price climbed 12.0 percent to $270,000 – the second highest median price of all time; • Single-family homes months of inventory registered a 2.2-months supply, down from 3.6 months last November and below the national inventory of 2.5 months;• Townhome/condominium sales jumped 23.4 percent with the average price up 2.5 percent to $224,130 and the median price up 11.8 percent to $190,000;• Single-family home rentals fell 11.1 percent with the average rent down 5.5 percent to $1,882; • Townhome/condominium leases declined 4.0 percent with the average rent up 11.5 percent to $1,674.

I'm looking to hopefully meet a mentor here on BP or maybe get some feed back on what companies will work with training a new agent that's excited to learn and go full steam ahead in launching my real estate career.My ultimate goal for the next coming year is to learn as much as possible and meet as many people as I can.

Educated at Yale and Princeton and an innovative thinker and leader in New York's real estate community, Alex Cohen develops strategy, advises, manages and analyzes commercial office, retail and mixed used acquisition and lease transactions for tenants, landlords and investors.With a background in urban planning, 15 years of commercial real estate transaction negotiation totaling millions of square feet, extensive real estate experience in launching international brands in the US and deep expertise in the marketing and repositioning of mixed use real estate, Alex Cohen's unique perspective allows him to: - Identify markets and buildings and plan space configurations with the potential to attract and retain Millennial (and Gen X) talent to drive business growth - Develop branded office building environments that incorporate important new technologies and trends and establish flexible and activity-based occupancies critical to the Workplace of the Future - Position real estate assets to attract the world’s leading brands to build centers of collaboration, creativity, experimentation and consumer retail interaction.

I normally don't promote the program because most people are so negative about it but its been a great support for me and I've was given all the tools to launch a successful business from Day 1.