For me it is better to find a really good deal (meaning price way below market), renting the property for a few years and then selling it, instead of chasing quick flips, or following the cashflow mantra.I don't really see any reason to rush and purchase properties when prices are hitting 8 year highsThis week I attended a conference call with the CEO of a big airline in Europe, who defined the current market as «a rollercoaster», impossible to predict, and gave a grim outlook of the current situation of air traffic and the airline industry..When people don't fly or travel, aircraft manufacturers don't make money, carmakers lower production, rental car companies go bankrupt, car sales go down, and people are being fired by millions.. maybe it's the time to be patientEven oil traded at negative prices just a few months ago!

And now moving into ag and of course been in manufacturing for years.

Or did you want to wait until all manufacturing leaves Silicon Valley to do something?

I am an agent and I self manage my properties along with a few manufactured homes I invested on.

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My only claim to "real estate" writing was a writer for hire project I wrote for a social entrepreneur called "the Cash Garden" which was designed to give working class people a blueprint for using manufactured housing units as a way to build wealth.  

The state will add 70,000 new jobs next year, down from 78,800 in 2018, he said.Our economy is diversifying and no longer relies strongly on any one industry, like it did on construction and real estate earlier this century, he said.While construction is still the fastest-growing sector in the greater Phoenix area, other sectors like education, transport and warehouses, professional and technical, and manufacturing all showed strong growth."

Manufacturing Engineer.

Although I had never done it in the past, I couldn't imagine it would be so hard to buy a home.My agent suggested I look into other options, such as purchasing land and putting a manufactured home on it.

The difference is that the crime in that area is low, and there are several manufacturing jobs around the area to help support wages (as well as restaurants, etc.)If you mean high crime then yeah this is a concern.