So it will be an education for me to track expenses for this property over the next few years.  

When I ask for reasons I get cost of living, quality of live, moderate climate, fresh water access, no natural disasters and moving back to where they were from.From what I can see the trend to the Midwest is steadily increasing, but by no means as big as moving south.Your comment "This is an old statistic" Maybe I'm mistaken but they haven't published 2023 - 2024 since 2024 isn't over yet, But, if you have something that covers the country for all of 2024, I'd love to see it.

The market is quite competitive, most offers are over list price.

If spending $100k will only increase the value of the property from its current state by $100k, there is nothing but risk to proceed. 

In my field of work, we collaborate with different tax professional all over the country and I personally have a few favorites with various knowledge and insights!

I live in MN and we don't have time to screw around or our busy season is over.

Yep ive lowered the price over $100.

I'm particularly passionate about East rural areas of Dallas.Outside of real estate, I enjoy horseback riding, jet skying, home improvement projects, and spending time with my family & friends.Excited to learn and connect with yawl!

These "gator lenders" as he calls them, are over leveraging the property being bought "Subject To".

He's signing a 2-year lease agreement and we already came down on the rent by $100 after negotiation (which I thought was over).