important to stay up on current rental rates. sales to home owners has slowed in all markets time on market has increased to a more normal market down from selling within the first 5 days on market to 30 to 90 days on market before pending.. have not seen a bunch of price drops at least yet.

I learned a lot by growing slowing and managing them myself.

I know the deficit is insanely astronomical, stock market is a gamble and the housing market is slowing, but what is the best way to get a foggy but somewhat clear picture of what is going on?

How much, how often do they withdraw? 

Things slow down during the winter and will pick up pretty soon.Also, what other marketing does your agent do in addition to listing the property on the MLS?

@Joe Villeneuve you're a busy guy so I'll save you some time crafting your response, yes I know it is not the optimum way invest for pure return, yes, I know it slows down the velocity of my capital, yes I know I could get better pure yield if I did what you did.

You must keep the money in a separate account and withdraw the rental amount monthly.

You want to find a private investor and pay them a return  Yes - it is much more difficult to get a second hard money loan on a project - when doing a BRRRR, you want just one rehab loan (potentially with draws), and then a clean refinance into a long-term loan

If there's no why you just enjoy the tenants paying off the mortgage :) 6. 1031 with DST is becoming very interesting because the offering could offer a lower interest rate than the typical 6-7% 30YFRM , just a year ago residential mortgage rate is lower than DST rate. 7. with the possibility of the slow economy moving forward, a CRE from a good sponsor is actually less risky.

*Real estate isn't a get-rich-quick scheme, it's a get-rich-slow method: On almost every BiggerPockets podcast David Greene (aka Sir BRRRR) says the same thing.