I've been attending an investing conference for the past 15 years off and on and feel like I've outgrown a lot of it.

Generally by looking at the listing pictures and reading the remarks I wanted to weed out properties that you could say had $5k-$10k of capital improvements invested into them between when they were sold in 2017 and then sold again in 2022.

Remember that a rental is a long-term investment with additional financial benefits such as depreciation.

we already have manpower issues at these numbers.I suspect it won't do much more than crowd out private investment given private developers are already building houses at almost the highest rate since the 2008 crash. 

One thing to confirm is the interest deduction on the HELOC, primary V investment as it pertains to the next acquisition.

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I currently have a 2 bed / 2 bath townhome in the 85031 area of Glendale, just north of Grand Canyon University. We have it listed for $184,900, and it seems like it could work either as a rental or a q...

., so giving a shout out to @Mike Lambert who is pretty savvy investing south of the border.

Start by reading the Ultimate Real Estate Investing Guide: https://www.biggerpockets.com/guides/ultimate-real-estate-investing-guide/introduction2.

At the early stages, the more control you have over your real estate, the better returns thus I recommend investing locally to make your dollar go that much farther and gain a good familarity with real estate before exploring out of state investing.

I am of course partial to KC but there are many east and west coast people that do invest here.