I used to manage them by myself but as I began having health issue relocated to California during the pandemic, I handed over most of them to a property manager who is also my real estate agent.

My opinion is while not directly correlated, when banks start losing money and increase in defaults lending tightens and large losses typically will lead to more job losses.

There are a handful of meetups in the area, although not sure than any are meeting in person at the moment.

I asked a dozen times for someone to just walk me through 1 deal from start to close for a $15k product you would assume that a couple hours of one-on-one time would be included but it's not.

I just started my career in the U.S. military and am hoping to have my first assignment in Europe, specifically Germany.

But I believe this is an up and coming area - my home is one of the first tear-down-rebuilds in the area, with more remodels / tear-down-rebuilds in the works (there are a handful of remodels in the neighborhood).

Another consideration would be to look at it as a start-up expense if it's regarded as a trade or business (can deduct up to $5,000 immediately for eligible start-up costs).

On the other hand, buy-and-hold rentals offer a more stable path, with a thriving rental market supported by population growth, job gains, and the affordability of townhomes and condos.

They wanted to start early, but then no, then they have stopped texting.  

When I saw Antoine Martel from FlipSystem Posting Advertisement on social media like this:"You only need $10K ~ $30K to invest in RealEsate doing Flipping and make 100% ROI in 4 months""My clients in FlipSystem averagely spend 4 hours in managing each Flip Project""We help you to quite your JOB in couple of months by doing Flipping""We have few hundreds of success happy client - (Actually there might be few hundreds of clients losing their hard working money)"And lots of other advertisement stating: "Easy, Fast, Low RISK" in their programI thought: "Wow, doing Flipping is so easy and profitable and low-bar to enter in, I should join their program and start make money!"