If you do choose to invest remotely, go meet your team in person.

I really would like to keep as much personal cash as I can at the moment because I am expecting some very big life changes this summer which will take a good chunk of my income.

Chris  TC =  A person who may or may not be licensed ( this is Oregon and WA laws) who assist the agents in many aspects of the transaction. they are normally Dependent independent contractors .

As that will at least help folks that you reach out to know that you are a real person, with a picture and professional bio.

Even if the homeowner got the excess funds imagine the bid is $100k.

We are nearing 50 years old and have kids that'll be going to college in 5-10 years, so it's hard to commit to a 30 year plan that locks up funds without having someone to help crunch the numbers for us.

With respect to the other market cycles this is what I would personally do to exploit the upcoming market cycle:Recession: Network and Educate!

Quote from @Albert Johnson: Stay out of personal drama.

This translates to 2-4 weeks of unpaid rent per house per year in our reserve fund on top of maintenance reserves.

like what most people don't get about the AI is that, currently, in 2024, the AI will become a sudden giant because there's world war three among data centre elephant and data modeler : microsoft vs google vs meta vs amazon, they are the one that's buying thousand of nvidia gpu with the hop one day that one small company or startup can replace the incumbent like google , pfizer All their purchase makes every single nvidia employee can buy a house in santa clara county easily lol. it would impact REI by a lot later on as employment and employability or group of persons would change.