Last month, I purchased my first rental property in Baltimore for $117k and invested an additional $13k in renovations.

Research specific neighborhoods for safety and rental demand to ensure they align with your investment goals.Hope this helps.

I’m staying focused on making the best out of my preferred local markets where I know the zoning regulations and what is required governmentally to either own rentals or to do work on my buildings.

While a flip is more intense, owning a rental is NOT just sitting back and collecting money.  

Our interests are currently more focused on short term rentals, but we are also interested in many other aspects of real estate investing and looking to make a start.

It's a simple rental arbitrage. 

Many cities in Washington are adopting rental registration programs. 

*Newbie Investor I’m currently looking to buy a long term rental with minimal renovations in North Carolina and chose Fayetteville as my main area of interest.

The owner lives a few hours away and is selling off most of her rentals but this one is too much for her to deal with any more being so far off and it being a lower class type community, she claimed the tenants are all loyal bill payers even through covid.

I looked at the best-case scenario for a rental that I am selling (it's under contract) if a cash buyer bought it and placed it into service at a Rent-O-Meter average price, and the annual yield is 6.33%.