You can make more through co-living in most markets, but still likely to be better off house hacking 1 / year and then buy out of state with your extra cash.If you want to chat strategy with someone - feel free to PM me or reach out to contact info in my bio!

My daily job is to buy commercial real estate.

(The Black Friday sale on the Bigger Pockets bookstore was where I did my own Christmas shopping so my family knew what to ‘buy’ for me!).

They require all cash to buy so the people there have money.

I personally like the buy-and-hold strategy and we help clients who share this long-term, wealth building mindset. 

So, I kept going back and buying things for my girlfriend until he sold it to me.

Buy-in is often more conducive than other more saturated markets and there's such a wide variety of options to choose from. 

BiggerPockets also has a calculator to analyze deals, and I highly recommend you start this as soon as possible, even if you are not ready to buy.

One thing you don't want to do is to buy based on proforma and have a negative cash flow property, especially on your first deal.

Could happen but very rare. #4 See everything you plan to buy in person.