As the broker repping the selling, I always caution sellers on offers with high price and low EM.

This town is very small in population (population trend not growing) although has a community college that is less than half mile walking distance from ANY of the properties (community college population is growing at WELL above avg rate(dorm rate 850mth))

High interest rates and high housing prices don't scream "BUY" to us.  

HELOCs and HELOANs do exist for rental, but with prime so high and secondary tier of LLPAs associated with these programs you’ll be above 10-11% all day.

@Todd Knudson high yield savings account.

I would highly recommend FB marketplace and also joining local FB real estate, rental, and leasing groups. 

If one is a CAT 5 and hits lower Florida at high tide with 20ft+ storm surge goes into the Gulf restrenghthens and hits somewhere from Florida to Texas again at high tide with a Katrina size storm surge of 28ft it is an issue.

If you can't keep control of your personal finances, you are highly unlikely to succeed in real estate investing.

Once the urine is in there it seems to cause future pets to also "go"I am interested in the Reno area, I have been there many times, in public but did not notice a lot of dog owners , at least compared to Bay Area or central Oregon where dog ownership seems high.  

You will be surprised how high they are going.