if you're looking for high-cashflow areas, for LTRs, the midwest seems to be the place to be. but if you're doing MTR or STR strategies, the shenandoah area might be the next hot spot for mountainous STR markets. wholesaling is a ton of work up front & i feel like a smaller % of people succeed in it, vs the larger % of people who succeed with actually buying rental properties. 

I have no issues with ones that will actually close at contract price even if not assigned, but the ones just trying to tie the house up for free, with no intention of buying unless they find a higher bidder, is just wrong. 

We actually have our in-person meetup down here in the city this coming Saturday if you are free...here is a link: https://www.biggerpockets.com/forums/95/topics/1177930-insur...What are you looking to do in the real estate space? 

I also am being required to sign a cancelation, but I never signed an agreement in the first place so they are not actually my PM.

& it's normal to not get to see the actual leases before you're under agreement.

That's actually on my agenda to add to my portfolio.

Bigger Pockets actually offers tenant screening on their site through a trusted partner.

If you were able to actually occupy and travel back and forth overseas and back to the US but keep it as your USA primary residence, maybe that would open up options as a second home/primary, etc. depending on the full situation.

We are coming to the new era where company that sells virtual reality , virtual real estate and AI like Nvidia , Meta or Microsoft ; and also "virtual" coin like Crypto is valued way way higher than real actual tangible real-estate like office building , apartment building and so on and so on for example the level of valuation for office building is like a wipe out.If the investment climate continue like this where there's no relevancy between investment and tangible or the real word , how conservative real estate investor like us should react ?

Have never had an issue with the house when someone was actually living in it.