Hi Emily,I only do commercial real estate and multifamily.There are 20 plus counties in the Atlanta MSA area.I would do research on the different counties for demographics, median income, diversity percentages, education levels, etc. and then narrow down to a few counties.I would then contact investor agents there who have the deep networks that have some off market properties if there are no MLS opportunities or inventory.

However, if you are willing to take the risk, a 4 bedroom with a pool in Plano could be a great long term rental opportunity, with the help of a good property manager (I can pass along the name of mine if you need a recommendation).With the shortage of inventory currently available in the DFW area, there appears to be more buyers being forced to rent, especially those moving in from out of state.

Hi Joan-I don't at this point know what the market is currently like, but I know when we bought our house here there was not much inventory.

The major issue is all those towns have a lot of cheap inventory.

I also work for Keller Williams in the SF bay area and the market is saturated with agents and not enough inventory.

I'm thinking of getting my real estate license in minnesota, and I'm curious if it's a good idea b/c of the inventory being low?

Rich - I think they're calling it a 9 month inventory at the longest to build 2,050 homes.

The inventory comes from properties that did not sell on Homepath and have been removed from the site.

Investors have eaten up Atlanta something fierce for the last 3-4 years so inventory is extremely hard to find.

DOM is around 90-120 right now for something fairly priced, there is very little high end inventory that isn't in the suburbs (which are dying in Memphis)..