Having a hard time finding much of anything with cash flow, so setting my eyes on appreciation and equity.

Here, you can highlight your areas and topics of interest... and anything else related to your RE aspirations.Another BiggerPockets feature that helped me tremendously was setting up my keyword alerts.

Otherwise investing in the stock market or better yet, a high interest savings account (mine is at 5.5%) can actually be a safer bet.If you are set on condos, I would be looking in Ventura County.

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If it's between november - february and you get an offer from an insurance company it maybe worth it than leaving it vacant. you can extra 10-20% and you can blow through some of the cold months so when you do have to find a new tenant, it should be easier and rent should be higher.

A renter can literally move in, stop paying rent, and the landlord can't evict because it may be cold outside.

It was already perfectly set up for it with almost all water hook-ups in place already (wet bars, previous basement kitchens, etc.) and I mainly just had to remodel and put a few exterior doors in place to separate areas.

. - Training is in-depth and correctly sets expectations.

Most are set up in 4 separate quarterly draws.

however, I find that new construction the prices aren't as predictable as older houses where it already has the set prices, here in new jersey I didn't see it going down really, and even if it did a little, I believe 100% that it is only a dip as the real estate market history will also show. could be in areas like Florida or suburbs it might fall more with less interest of new people moving there but crowded cities like Newark new jersey will always have the need for more apartments, and most important rents always go up with exceptions of maybe very short-term slips