To stay in the same general area and up your property tax exposure.....I would further consider. 

And if you are looking at rental market, agents may not be the best, or only have partial insights, since they have exposure bias to buyers, not renters.Property managers will help if you are trying to gather market insights on rentals in various areas, who is renting, things to watch out for, expenses typical for the market, etc.I also like the "drive it yourself".  

“Foreclosure activity has continued to gradually return to normal levels since the expiration of the government’s moratorium, and the CFPB’s enhanced mortgage servicing guidelines,”“March foreclosure activity was at its highest level in exactly two years – since March 2020, when there were almost 47,000 foreclosure filings across the country,” https://mortgageorb.com/forecl...Headline writer deserves a bonus for all the extra page views for making something from "... normal levels...". 

At the end of the day we’re all trying to limit exposure and minimize risk…  Leveraging your capital and buying in the right locations is it. 

Are you looking to get your license to primarily represent yourself, or are you thinking of making it more into a full time job and representing yourself is an added bonus?

I used to do graphic design work so I will also make a blueprint for a lot of my construction projects but that is just a bonus. 

I will borrow from David Greene's logic here and pose 2 questions:1) Is Tucson a market where you want to have continued exposure? 

Thus, come to learn the long way that my most idolized mentors that I know personally, who individually hold over $10M plus RE portfolios have zero exposure & experience with non qualified mortgages….

And on my last property I offered full price and then a problem came up and now I’ve gotten $100,000 off and am getting bonus work thrown in too like a new hot water heater!

here on the west coast its 15 and hour with signing bonus's  ..