Rates are high now, but if they go down, more buyers will enter the market and drive prices back up.

But not the one I drive . 

For your next several deals stay within a 2, 3 hour drive.

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I am striving to purchase rental/lease properties within a 1 hour drive.

Enjoy that music--this is definitely a moment when agents who can say no, and drive action--will see some serious benefit. 

In my head i picture a some empty room with a printer on the floor and stacks of paper everywhere, having to drive to the post office and handing them a list where they hand type every address one by one. 

., who might also want to open an outpost, as well as drive local traffic so it's not all real estate and other people want offices there too.

I've rented it out before but with my full time job, managing two STR's is a bit stressful and hard to sustain so looking for other options.

If its the trendy hot areas, or general "path of progress" and your able to make a trip and go drive around to find that "path" its really the best way.