I agree that Zillow may not be the best for management/screening, but they are good at marketing.

Long term tenants in place currently paying below market rent at $1200/M.

This is not my favorite option as most real estate agents wouldn't know how to handle the marketing of a property with a tenant currently in it. 2) Find an investor friendly agent who might already have buyers looking for that type of property.

These are primarily for "off market" purchases.TOP 10 Motivated Seller Lists - Try each of these Driving for dollars - (Finding houses that need a little lovin’ and contacting the owner) Propstream has an App that gives you immediate information on the property and saves it to your list.

So the lessons here are that until rates come down, most houses for sale at current market rates will not cash flow (well) where they are worth buying in todays market. 

In the current market with the prices of homes being so high does it still make sense to be investing in real estate or to be accumulating cash and waiting to see where the market goes? 

I've seen it happen, but pretty rare and so rare you shouldn't waste time and effort on those homes.#4. 

Also, I love the Jacksonville market.

I have been having issues recently with my PM software  TenantCloud not carrying my listing description over to all the marketing websites.

Now if I compare this to the stock market, for this case we start with 12k also but this time our investment give us a 6% return every year for 5 years.