When you visit a potential long-distance rental market in person, what are you looking for?  What do you do?My wife and I will be driving from Phoenix to New Orleans and back to Tucson for her work.  We have time to p...

Hey,Initially i was looking for investing in multi family in Providence OR Boston area and do a "House Hack".But after calculating the numbers, cash return is pretty minimal. Its not even close to 1%.I started to look...

Investor-friendly realtors/contractors in Toledo, OH?Thanks.

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So I've been speaking with a broker who has a pocket listing of 2 dozen properties in lower class neighborhoods (not quite warzones, but not much better than), in my town of Lubbock. I just started w...

What amenities (if any) do renters look for when searching for a rental?

Hi everyone,I am trying to get creative with financing, will be going into my seventh property that will be financed under my name. (I have done conventional financing for all my units, including one which is my prima...

Greetings! Curious to know how the investors on this blog research local areas for investments. Items such as the macro economics; net migration, income growth, job creation and more difficultly the soft areas which s...

Hi All, Hope everyone is having a great week so far. I have been using rentometer for a while now just to give me overall ideas of areas. However, I was curious about what others were using. Are there alternatives? Ma...

Hi All,I'm new to Minnesota and am looking to start my high level due-diligence of the areas in the twin-cities areas. I'm looking to build/print a map with zipcode outlines for each area so I can create a visual repr...

I'm looking at a multifamily on 72nd & Center that you would think is in Milwaukee but in fact is in a tiny pocket of Wauwatosa that juts north along the irregular border. It's not clear to me whether I should val...