Fast forward to a year after finding this community, I'm 100% this is my next thing.

Six hundred or 700 dollars a month rent gets eaten up real fast when you need a new roof or need to dig a new sewer line from the house to the street. 

Not only would our buddy not get the loan for us, but none of the lenders in the area wanted to loan us the money.We were pretty beat up about it, but fast-forward a few years and we ended up buying our current home at a great time and we got a terrific loan.  

Yes, the market is hot and prices are rising pretty fast, but there are also great opportunities here as well!

Ask your bank to Underwrite the file without property address so you can close fast. this kind of approval will help you to close fast.  

.: I agree, that's one of the reasons I got my license, no to sell, but to have access to the information as fast as I need it, and I was shocked to find out that a lot of agents doesn't even invest in their own product.Try to make them your partner and/or show them you are serious, signing an agreement is a good idea, and don't wait a year to buy something.

The goal is to get to the person who IS interested in selling as fast as possible.

Plus the trades are aging fast and many will retire and we have a generation of college kids come up who can't tell a 2x4 from a 2x8.Sub 300k inventory (in our market) is the lowest and limited to existing homes - the cost of land, materials and labor force builders into the 400-600 range, so starter homes are like bit-coin: finite supply.Wrapping it all up I dont believe we will see an economic slow down have significant impact on the RE markets - at least certainly not to the tune for 2008.

They claim it is like naming a fast food restaurant McDonald's Burger Joint. 

Why is everyone so fast to evict people?