Hi Elia,With your experience and drive, scaling your portfolio is within reach.

If someone does the work to generate a meaningful question, I wish there was more respect given to those folks. 

This scarcity will drive both property prices and rents upward.Housing supply and demand dynamics are more determined by interest rates and state/local economics than by the president and Congress.SummaryWaiting for the election outcome won't give you an advantage.

@Thomas Rutkowski may be able to help with a monetized installment sale...just another option.Glad that you posted...this is a meaningful post.

I think it was a double whammy when the fed rate was boosted from nothing to 5-5.25 and the fed was also selling a bunch of the bonds they had bought before to drive mortgage rates down. 

Premium increases are rippling through the market; the state is also always going to be financially strapped/high tax due to union pension commitments from past generations and the high tax, high services nature of Chicago.I'd highly recommend getting on a plane and driving around before you buy anything there. 

The interactions were mainly me sending places I wanted to go look at, and making offers with very little guidance from them, ultimately only to lose out on the bid.All in all, I've learned that being this early in my investing journey, I need an agent who is not only familiar with investing (or is an investor) but will reciprocate the same dedication and drive. 

A few tactics that come to mind are: - creating a single listing page (landing page) that captures contact info - paid social ads that drive to the single listing page What's the perfect use case for a single listing page?

They bought 72 houses in six months at the age of 23 and now drive their Lamborghini to their castle where they party with P-Diddy and drink champagne all day.

I've had success with letters, driving for dollars, and off market deals.