Investment Info:Condo other investment in Worcester.

My wife and I have been doing an MTR-exclusive startegy for 3.5 years, and we still have a hard time figuring out how to predict vacancy, especially in a new market that we're considering.If we look at FF's (pretty crummy) data on their website we either see very few listings, so we think "no one is investing here; bad" or we see a lot of listings and think "too much competition; bad". 

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As someone with no experience investing into a syndication, is this normal, a red flag, or possibly ok depending on other variables?

Even if I 1031into an actual investment property?

Always look at comparables when investing.

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I’ve saved up a bit of capital during high school and my plan is to keep building it while I’m in college and start investing quickly.

I will be able to do my first purchase in Q4.My investment goals are to retire from my W2 in 6 years by the time I am 40, continue my location independence and split my time between the business and writing (it's hard to give up stories when you have worked with it since you were 19).