When making investment choices, look into job opportunities, population changes, school ratings, amenities, and rental needs.

It's more important than ever to find residents that qualify.

I make a little over 100k a year and have 50k currently ready for a down payment. any insight would be helpful.Hey Brandon, totally can relate with you being from an expensive real estate market - I moved to Columbus a few years ago (from Portland, Oregon which was super expensive) to become a full time real estate investor, and ever since, I've completed quite a lot of BRRRRs, flips, and own a successful rental portfolio here in Columbus Ohio.

I don't see that changing.

Compensation is negotiable, always has been, and either the seller and/or the buyer will be responsible for any agreed-upon expenses per their listing contract or buyer broker contract.Disclosure about compensation is more important than ever, and remains at the discretion of the representative and their clients, hence the need for those agreements which will be a requirement after the settlement.Buyers and sellers must know how their representatives are compensated and by whom before they commit to a working relationship.  

If you're dialing 100+ people a day and not coming out with 2-3 solid conversations per day after a week, then change the tools, but in my experience its usually the skill of the caller, so get dialing because the only way to get better is through practice.The good news: once you get some traction and close deals, you can hire a VA cold caller to do most of the grunt work and focus on the handraisers and nurturing them.

I am not sure I would ever actually sleep there or live there but the laws around this are confusing. 

It will firm up quotes from the subcontractors, make your contracts much stronger  and also make the project move far smoother with better communication between the trades and reduce the risk of change orders. 

That is a 5% growth rate instead of 2.5% yields about a .5-1% change in total returns over the first 5-7 years.

I've been here since early the 2000s and don't think I'll ever leave.