Although not a player in making comments yet, many posts, blogs, and podcasts have helped accelerated my growth.

If your goal is buy and hold, key indicators I value are the ratio of average purchase price to average rent, low vacancy, and commercial growth in the area.

The deduction would go on schedule E as travel costs.If you are traveling to look at properties - the answer it different.Another reminder is that you may need to report to the IRS any account balances held abroad that is in excess of $10,000 during the year.Laws are immensely skewed in favor of tenants.

Here are trends I look at in a market:- Unemployment - Job growth- Job diversification- Pay- Vacancy trends- Affordability trends (property values & rents)- Taxes- Landlord / tenant lawsJust to name a few...

They are relatively stable and there's also potential for growth.

I think there are a lot of variables for each of these options to determine why and where you would invest, here are my thoughts based on a "broad view" of each market.If you continued to invest in Atlanta, obviously there will continue to be growth and appreciation, depending on the location.

I can see how restructuring for growth may be something that needs to happen regularly.

If they sell now and prices rocket, they will miss an equity growth potential.

@Josh Green totally agree, there is more room for me to execute on rent growth by adding amenities and right now (I should clarify) only 3 of the rooms are available and 1 is used for storage.

There's hundreds of other lenders who are small in size and table fund or maybe even fund into origination and there cash reserves are funded by LPs, Family Offices or High Net Worth Individuals ... but the 10-12 with institutional sponsors have seen tremendous growth since 2016.