The key is to find a location growing with jobs.

So glad to be among these legends in the business, and excited to learn and contribute as I grow.

With a strong interest in the field, I’m here to dive deep into real estate investment, aiming to grow and learn from this community’s vast experiences.Currently residing in the Bay Area, I’m fascinated by the dynamism of our local market but am equally interested in exploring investment opportunities beyond, including other cities and states.

Keep learning and growing...

All that said one of the things like about these smaller markets, is just less overall competition and the ability to kind of set your own comps, while it hasn’t sold yet so I could be wrong, it was hard to comp tbh, but this town (about 1.5 hours from dc) is growing rapidly, my parents bought a house for 350k in 2019 now worth 600k.

for some reason REITs have never been a sexy asset class, older investors look at REITs as a weird-bond and wonder why own something with 4-5% dividend when they can own Investment Grade corporates at 5-6% or even recently US treasuries at 5%, and young investors don't even know what they are.yet they acquire class A real estate, the kind you and I can't due to price, the kind that has the best capital appreciation in great areas long term, and they have access to credit at lower rates than us, or they can just print shares and get new capital for free that way, to buy more great properties, They can pay for the best management, they don't ever pay brokerage fees either in or out (have everything in -house), and they generally have much lower risk as most of their portfolios are leveraged at only about 30-40% LTV, and we have zero personal liability when owning them as opposed to the litigation headaches we get with direct RE, and right now they collectively are on sale about 25-50% below their NAVs at lowest valuation since 2008, as opposed to SP500 at all time highs.

That was some of the best money I have ever spent and I would like to duplicate the process in these areas!

I am based in Oregon and I am planning on diving into the world of out of state investing.I have bought and sold a couple of  homes here locally but would love to start growing my out of state portfolio which I have very little experience in. 

I would probably recommend that you pull some of your capital and use it in active investments that will grow your equity very quickly like flips, BRRRRs, value add multifamily, etc. 

i dont plan on watching them just dont want to deal with removing and re installing if ever vacant.