I see far too many post in these forums about wanting to buy in certain markets because it’s where they can afford to buy.

I saw this post from Aleksey Chernobelskiy and boy did it resonate.

This is in the link I posted.

When I saw your post I went over to check him out, because I've never heard of him.

I finally finished renovating the last unit and am currently at full capacity with all units having been renovated within the last three years.

Any recommendations or tips on what has worked for you would be greatly appreciated.

We have 2 full years income on one STR, 1 full year income on the other.

🤷‍♂️Love this post and what Scotty posted.Congrats on your success thus far.As much as I love real estate and business it never is passive and never will be totally passive unfortunately.There is always a risk component involved and a reliance on someone.There will always be that gut wrenching phone call that makes the stomach turn.It all come's down to how much is enough for someone to live a happy life.I unofficially retired at 28 and am back chasing now at 36.Parents and family are getting older and have a huge will and in a way pressure to retire my old man.A beautiful person and father.I've checked off mum and uncle from the list hahaFew more to go lolI am and always will be a "real estate guy" per se but a few years ago I asked myself this question:"How can I get the highest possible return, with the least amount of risk, without doing any work and without involving anyone else?"

Will,That's a question that involves a lot of detail and conversation to map out the LLC, Financing, Grants, and percentage of partnership should you decide to acquire more than 5-10 properties.Feel free to reach out if you want to discuss the scenario and I can try and detail some tips from my experience. 

I’ve been doing that with a few market recently, I try to spend a week just online trying to figure out the different boundaries/different neighborhoods, what the dividing lines are, what type of housing stock is there (I only focus on post ww2 brick for instance) than figure what the yields are in these areas, and then decide if the yields are decent enough on risk adjusted basis to bother to invest.