All Forum Posts by: Levi Meyer
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Hello,
I've been looking into rental property investing for years now and I'm excited to get started. Looking to buy cash-flowing rental properties and hold onto them for the long-term.
However, I've run into a problem in the small Wyoming town I live in.
Because the area is so scenic (about an hour for Yellowstone), housing prices are pretty high (average 3 bedroom house is almost 300k) while rent prices are pretty low (about 1000/mo for a 3 bedroom house on average).
The area seems to have extremely high-paying jobs or service industry paying jobs with not much in between (other than your teachers/nurses/etc). This plus the fact that young professionals like myself don't really move/live/get jobs here and it makes for a tough rental property investing area, at least in my mind. Those who have good jobs usually buy homes — I read a stat that 65% of people in Cody own a home.
Maybe I'm a bit misled by stats, but I don't see — with the exception of the rare screaming deal — how a rental property could cash flow here, especially considering I wouldn't put more than 20% down on a place. The payments, even with good credit, would be too high for cash flow, and that doesn't even include maintenance, vacancy, and the like.
Anyone else live in a place like this? Any good advice on how/if to get started. The new guy appreciates the wisdom.
Levi