Yes texting is hot right now but be creative and use something other than "Hi John, do you own the house at 123 main st?".

I was able to build a real estate flipping and wholesaling business that runs without me (due to all the incredible people I have working with me) and I can stay home to help raise our 3 young boys.  

“It’s not too hot, and it’s not too cold.”Why Phoenix is hotValley home prices are forecasted to climb about 4% during 2020, while they have peaked or are falling in Chicago, Denver, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Portland, Houston, New York, Dallas, Nashville, Salt Lake City, Charlotte, Washington D.C., according to Burns Real Estate Consulting.Metro Phoenix ranks No. 4 for the most investors — about 28% of homebuyers.

Each state has a Division of Real Estate who oversees broker operations & requires broker's to adhere to incredibly strict accounting procedures, audits and care of all of this money that flows in & out of their hands that is that of the client's (you) or the tenant's.

There are hot head landlords who think they can treat tenants like dirt and violate the law.

And I have a lender that I work with who's an investor herself and incredible at creating strategies to move forward on your next purchases.

I'm no professional appraiser, but these are all 3 bed/2 bath homes built in the same era (1920s) with incredibly similar square footage and lots (1600ft/.33 acres) and same basic amenities (none of us have garages but we all have recently renovated kitchen/bath) Besides the 'hot market' that is happening in our little town, we did also do improvements to the home since purchasing it- including a new roof, gutters, encapsulated crawlspace and landscaping. 

Tacoma is a hot market.

We are buy and hold investors, and in a hot market like Austin, you have to work harder to make a great deal.

Given that many of the hot markets are so competitive and the prices on turnkey-ish properties have already increased in these areas, such that it is hard to achieve the 1% recommendation..