Lack of 1% yielding inventory in the MLS has most of us screaming across the country. 

I talk to a lot of buyers daily who research home values and inventory but fail to look at other important factors. 

Know what the trends are (inventory levels, active listings, pendings, solds, etc.) and learn how to evaluate rehab costs.

Originally posted by @Walker Diallo:A good deal to me the project last 3/4 months and has 60-80k Plus in profits to cover you if anything goes wrong.  60k-80k in in 21215 or 21216You need to lower your expectation, or wait for a year until inventory is up

The property has some opportunity to increase square footage and turn one of the units into a duplex unit and drive the rent a bit higher, but I originally planned to improve the property before refinancing to get some cash out.     

Appliances and furniture inventories are still low and back orders commonplace. 

After my first day yesterday of making 60+ calls and basically getting no where with any of the calls, I decided to spend my morning researching Cold Calling to improve my approach to finding sellers in the market.

In my market, prices have skyrocketed, inventory has steeply declined, and demand has risen.

In my market, prices have skyrocketed, inventory has steeply declined, and demand has risen.

In middle of the road type areas I’m still finding 8-9% with relative ease and room for improvement.