I'm not sure if I'm budgeting too much for expenses or if that's just how the market is in my area because it is very difficult to find anything that cash flows positive.

The pre-approval allowed us to make an offer before the condo we purchased was even advertised as being on the market.

Anytime the media spits out news coverage on rates, it has already been baked into the market from Wall St.

I’m based out of Seattle and initially I started analyzing deals in home turf but it is really expensive to break into Seattle market.

Considering how crazy the real estate market is here in Florida, I've been evaluating alternate means of sourcing potential investment properties, one of those being tax deed sales.

However, it was definitely not the right marketing channel for my market.

@Tosin Oluwatoye and @Jason Rowlett I am actually constructing two tiny homes (454 & 340 sq ft) on one small lot and will market them as a multi-family property.

If you want to network or ask specific questions about your local market, go to your local real estate forum and connect with investors from your area: https://www.biggerpockets.com/forums/86-local-real-estate-networking5.

Tampa’s rental demand is strong, and timing the market is always tricky.

I suspect that 5% or so that do wholesaling full time make at least 50k with the 1% ers making multiple hundreds of thousands and I am sure there are 7 figure wholesalers as well.those that have massive marketing budgets  like 20 to 50k per month.