Narrowing down your goals will help you better choose a market the fits your investment criteria.

Investment Info:Small multi-family (2-4 units) buy & hold investment.

While overall sales are down, Macy's is seeing positive results in its targeted investment stores, which are outperforming the broader chain.The demand for Macy's real estate could signal opportunities for other struggling department store chains.

I am based in Denton TX, and I am looking into out of state investing.

We're reaching out to other professionals who have done some investing in Alabama or who are very familiar with the market, (i.e. which are the more favorable counties in which to invest?) 

This way instead of selling, paying taxes, you can borrow against it and invest again.

You will need a great set of contractors, a good realtor who understands investments and a really investment friendly mortgage broker.

I initially was going to do a commercial loan and purchase my next house as an actual investment property, but financially it made a lot more sense for me to move into it and put a lot less money down upfront and have a lower interest rate.

My investment criteria never changed.  

I am new to real estate investing and was looking into taking a heloc on my primary to purchase land and do a construction loan.