Analyze Rental Comps & Market Trends•Look at recent rental comps in the community—not just those from a year ago, but the most recent listings with similar size, layout, and features.

Determine a suitable market, type of home, and satisfactory set of financial conditions for your purchase.

If the latter, how does that look on a day to day in terms of operating, marketing, and the ownership structure?

Are they using market rates for their labor, or are they only counting $20 an hour when a professional would charge $45?

San Antonio is a hot market still for flipping.

Guest breaking down their markets and strategies gave me a lot of insight.

@Cosmo DePinto The Huntsville market is tough right now.  

FICO is 780+ and currently have 4 other investment properties including 2 STRs in the same market we are trying to close on in West Virginia.

Out-of-state investing in cash-flow markets or partnering with experienced investors for passive returns are also great ways to put your capital to work.

He is interested in REI, has good basic knowledge on REI and has more than enough saved up for down but hesitate because of current market, interest rate, rental demand, capex, first investment jitters, draw of stock market, etc, etc.