But with every successful transaction, my confidence got a boost, and I got more comfortable taking on bigger projects.

The more experience you get, the smoother your process, the more confident you'll get in your contacts, and the better the terms you'll get from lenders.A few things to keep in mind for you as you go about your projects.1.

I've stayed in places like this myself before while traveling but back then I never looked at what the market was like in those places.

It would be good if traveling with pets required number and type but that is just nice to have. 

In addition to comfort and confidence to manage close by and local knowledge.

We are seeing co-living investors be able to obtain strong cashflow vs. the traditional long term rental where price points are below $320k or so.I'd pick a sub-market that you have confidence in holding over the next 5 - 10 years.Personally, I like the northern parts of the metro (Kennesaw, Acworth, Cartersville) for LTR and Dekalb, Clayton, Fulton) for Co-living.Feel free to ping me if you'd like to chat - happy to help!

the answers to all of your questions are... go find those people in person, which is difficult to do out of state unless you're traveling frequently to your chosen market. 

That knowledge gave me the confidence to take on short-term rentals as part of my investment strategy moving forward.The First DealIn May 2024, while my girlfriend and I were traveling, she found a multi-family property in a city near us.

You will have unpaid rent, eviction costs, repairs, vacancy, travel costs, etc on this property.

We've debated adding a printer station to our units because it would be awesome if we were traveling to have the ability to print where we were staying.