I would strongly encourage you to give heavy weight to a market that you know well, so you can be sure you aren't unknowingly buying Class D properties in an effort to chase the cash flow you're looking for.

I’d go with the short term for cash flow purposes right now now and take the gamble that rates will not increase that rapidly.

Either way you will have to find ways to add value to scale rapidly with limited funds.Best of luck and keep moving towards your goals!

Columbus is just the most rapidly growing and has the best fundamentals for long term growth in my opinion.

I am a new investor in Grand Rapids Michigan and have recently launched a yellow letter campaign that has resulted in me getting two duplexes under contract.

Sometimes, if it's not done correctly, the weight of the slab on the vent causes it to leak at the joints.

And I also understand that while the first deal is the hardest to get and that one should never take a ****** deal, once the first deal is done and the first asset elevated and stabilized it ultimately becomes the least important property in a portfolio: the real long term value of that first property is that it gets you on the field and in the game.For the past week I’ve been chopping up market data and podcasts and dumping them into my brain to slow cook until I had something digestible.The stew in my skull is roughly 1/3 market research (Chicago, Milwaukee, Madison, Detroit, Grand Rapids, south bend, Indianapolis, St.

Buffalo, Pittsburgh, Grand Rapids, Chicago and Columbus), high rental demand, diverse industry, and RE prices moving upward.  

Those properties are being snatched up rapidly by larger investors and the prices continue rising; pricing what should be the next round of small investors out.  

I have a limit of 35 pound weight.