I deal with industrial.

What are some of the "anchor" industries/businesses that attract folks to the Chattanooga area?

I use Zoho CRM for my investing business since it's industry leading, completely customizable, and under constant development to stay ahead of the feature trends.For my agent business, kvCORE is an all-in-one CRM & Lead Generation platform provided for free by my brokerage.

Creativity, problem solving, and ingenuity will lead to great wealth and success in real estate.2) Relationships: Real Estate is still a very old-fashioned industry in some way.

We both have steady full time employment in the same industry for years.

Look for both an outside Land acquisition or an old industrial building.

Overall, pretty investor friendly with some exceptions like most areas, but the tourism & hospitality industries are huge down here which is why it has always been a great market for STR investors. 

In addition, with the wave of big layoffs that have just been announced (11,000 at Meta, 10,000 at Amazon, 4000 at Twitter and a bunch of other companies not to mention a lot of layoffs in the construction industry and real estate agents/mortgage brokers needing a new job) if inflation has peaked, it's probably because we are in the early stages of a real recession (versus the technical recession of Q1-Q2 earlier this year).

Real estate is a lagging industry, it took 6 years for the last crash to bottom out, it doesn’t drop overnight.

.- Our industry is Short Term Rentals not Airbnbs.