I'm definitely not in a hurry, so I will likely be spending the next few months reading books and visiting properties before I make any major commitments.

Been reading numerous personal finance books and lurking BP for a few months now, but the savings are finally shaping up, so I've decided to take it more seriously :) I'm a recent college grad from the bay area who's been in industry for about 1-2 years now and I'm really interested in setting up a positive, reliable cashflow for myself to reach financial independence.

Finally, if you're indeed living in Malta, there're additional complications of being a foreign investor.

So far it has been listed for a week and has 5 showings with 4 applications and I am expecting some more this next week.My final decision was based on opportunity cost.

As you can imagine, it is an awesome opportunity for me to binge read countless books and listen to an insane amount of podcasts in a very short amount of time, relatively speaking (8-10 hours a day can really knock out a good chunk of if not an entire book, perhaps two).

I believe that days on market has finally stretched a little as the summer is closing, but that's standard practice. 

I have been reading books and watching podcasts for the last few weeks.

Followed those up with some motivational/self help reads that aren’t focused on REI and now I’m onto more real estate specific like Long Distance REI and The Book on Rental Property Investing.

In Ohio, you have 30 days to submit the final payment.

I look at:- Revenue/Profit by Channel to understand most valuable channel- Revenue/Profit By Month to understand seasonality- Booking Lead time to understand behaviours -- important to know to determine ideal time to drop prices- Days booked/month and average daily rate/monthI'll update if I start mining others