A follow up question. i have multiple applications from people who have never toured the units, and they tell me  “ we have driven by and viewed the online pictures and we are good with them”.  

And as a town car driver you meet all kinds.One of his clients he has driven for years as well is a new Heiress Grandfather sold the business for over 1 billion and she is about 32 YO.

That's driven up prices and pushed down availability. 

I think I’m getting driven by fomo more or so and feeling like I’m behind for my current age. (26) This is where my patience will be tested I suppose, I’ll use that time in the mean time to hyper study analyzing the numbers and my specific market as you suggested and get positioned correctly.

@Bill Brandt There is a point about Las Vegas housing prices being driven above what people can afford on local wages though.

The return spits are driven by IRR hurdles on a tiered-waterfall structure.

My first property cost $1,200.00 and was bought at a tax auction.I bought many for under $5,000 way before the prices got driven up by so many people being aware of the deals you could get.

It was just announced earlier this month that both Google and Apple are breaking ground on new hubs here in the Research Park, with Apple alone bringing in over 3,000 jobs that will be paying a minimum of $130k/year (lots of machine learning, AI positions).

It took 30 days for the seller to respond to my initial A/I letter.

@Evan Lieb In your situation, your decision (in most cases) will likely be driven by what is best for your kids.