Are there additional liquidity strategies outside of having a more substantial cash reserve?

Are you comfortable with investing outside your local market. 

Purchase price: $212,000 Cash invested: $11,000 I purchased a 4-plex outside of Edinburg Texas for my family and I to live in as a house hack.

What value-add do agents provide outside of sourcing the deal? 

On a more serious note, it does cause an insane level of backlog in the city, and causes a lot of developers coming from outside of Austin to go belly up when they don't anticipate the time and fees required to build here vs anywhere else in the state - even ~ an hour out of Austin.

It sometimes just happens to people that think outside the box and can position themselves into a money making machine!!

Outside of manually finding a financial institution and calling them, what a good way to gather this data?

Our budget for this first deal will be on the smaller side, and we will be happy to share any due diligence results on deals that are outside our budget, if it helps someone.There are specific states we are interested in.

Outside of bigger pockets, what are the best books and resources to educate myself on the short term rental avenue.

Hey BP,Excited to say that we're currently under contract on our second investment property (our first multi family), located in Hendersonville, NC - about a half-hour outside of Asheville.