Excited to share more of my progress in the upcoming weeks on the BP forum! 

I would like to begin investing where we live, Salt Lake City, and then would be happy to progress to other out of state options once I become more familiar and proficient with deal analysis.

Hello Alex,Good job on your progress.

This includes a lot of rust belt cities that although they do not have the crazy appreciation of some markets provide steady cash flow, and are not as volatile as other markets. 

Still a working progress Lessons learned?

I’ll post my progress. 

However, Google has 1,100 employees in downtown Austin and  recently announced massive expansions there and in East Austin.A steady or falling mortgage rate environment likely through 2020 should offer some help for the Austin housing market.

They may even want to see a 6-12 months steady rent payments as well. 

It seemed we would return to a more normal market, but now that the FED is playing with the numbers again and has made their recent cut to the benchmark rate I would expect the next 12-24 months to remain steady as they are now.You can go back and look at the records for 100+ years and you will find that real estate is cyclical.

An off the cuff tweet ignites a selloff and things are choppy for awhile until another leader tweets about progress being made or something else takes over the headlines.