By staying informed about market trends and historical data, we can make informed decisions that lead to maximum gains.Analyzing historical patterns is key to understanding the real estate market's behavior.

To overcome these, investors should focus on smaller properties, value-add opportunities, expand into secondary markets, leverage creative financing, partner for scale, monitor development trends, network aggressively, and use market data tools for tailored advice.

Understand Proposition 13 for property tax benefits, local transfer taxes, and strict tenant and rent control laws.

It's not the data or the asset classes; it's you.You are often your biggest roadblock.Considering this and looking at your journey differently, you can break the stalemate.If you are new and want advice, you must be open to ALL advice, not just the kind that supports your first idea or asset class.

That’s not an opinion—it’s backed by data.

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Ideally there'd be second factor requirements on any transfer, and especially "suspicious" ones (as defined by an entire team of people who monitor that sort of thing).Cookie theft and other takeover scenarios are a thing.

Columbus has become a major tech hub in the midwest with large companies like Intel investing $20 billion, Amazon investing $3.5 billion, Google building 2 new data centers: one in downtown Columbus and the other in right outside of U.S. 33 in Lancaster.I recommend working with an investor-friendly agent who focuses on cold-outreach methods like cold-calling, cold-texting, etc to bring you off-market deals.

If we can't buy 2nds, we just buy more low balance 1sts.There are data service providers, such as DistressedPro.com that can give you some more color on what product is currently in the marketplace (and who owns it).Best,Dave

@Bracken Bjorn The answer is in the local data...and the data might look differently to you than someone else...it's really about your goals, tolerance for risk, available resources, and personal preference...