It tells me it's a "Buyers Market".However, when you say in the same breath, "....The market seems to be in favor of sellers right now with investors having to bend..."...you're saying it's a "Sellers Market". 

Last year when they moved it was a massive bed of deep-rooted weeds, and the sides of the planter were nailed to deep posts in the ground and nailed to each other ever 4 inches or so.

By all means, the book is worthless, the investment advice is worthless, the ideas are flimflam, and you have impressed me greatly with your deep sagacity in so many ways in these forums.

Again, my opinion, but many are holding their breath waiting on a market correction or crash that may not come.

If you have deep knowledge of the city in which you're looking, then it may be a different story, and you may not need to visit.

When you dig down deep and imagine your future through real estate, what is it you see? 

So it does depend on your state but also we all are holding our breath with regards to eviction moratorium’s etc.Are you focusing on getting rentals as your single focus in REI?

Eventually I was able to connect the dots and understand the secret to deep rejuvenating sleep was putting myself one month ahead on my mortgage payments.

A big thing I also learned is how to deep dive into finding the owners of a property and learning how to negotiate on the phone.

While that may seem obvious, it's easy for new investors to disregard today's cash flow in lieu of our deep aspirations for future success when our current market is showing a trend of strong appreciation with exceptionally low interest rates.I mentioned being a Marine earlier because as a Marine we were trained to always have multiple courses of action (COAs), as I'm sure you're well aware.