My wife and I have loved real estate for a long time and invested in other areas, but are focused on building our portfolio in Kansas City.

To start my portfolio, I intend to buy a property in my area to retire my mother from New York.

A lot were doing air bnb up until the new rules came in place for the city of San Diego but you can still find a property outside the city that you can potentially do STR with to cash flow. 

The STR needs to be licensed with the city and can be rented out for a maximum of 180 days in STR format for a calendar year. 

As @Robin Smith mentioned, for assessing demand I used FurnishedFinder.com/stats; you can see demand data for a given city and some pricing data too.

This was a no money down deal was a tri-plex, duplex, SFR and studio all on a few city lots.

Newark is a city where smart investors can do well, but uninformed investors can miss the mark.

A nearby city with a lot of highly paid engineers.

Ashley, what city are you in?

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