When you combine those with house hacks you can have a pretty nice portfolio by the end of your 20s. 

Hi BiggerPockets community,We are a married couple based in the California Bay Area, both working as software engineers with a combined income of close to a Million USD.

The combination of hands-on mechanical knowledge and real business discipline is something many investors develop much later - if ever.One perspective that may serve you well early: in real estate, technical problems are often easier to solve than financial ones.A building can be “fixable” from a construction standpoint and still be a weak deal if the numbers don’t provide enough margin.

Using tools like PropStream is great, but combining that with boots-on-the-ground intel—contractors, property managers, and other local investors—can help you find deals faster and avoid surprises.

Combine falling rents, with higher vacancies, and higher rates and it was a recipe for disaster. 

That, combined with risk, tells you a lot. 

Combined with a cost segregation study, the first-year depreciation on this property is projected at $200K+.

Screening can combine credit checks with corporate housing letters, and tools like RentSpree or TransUnion SmartMove work well.

Using ai's, to build ai's, who create custom GPT's, to create specific project focused functions.

If have access to the water shut off, make sure they know where it is incase they notice a burst.It's too late now, but going forward if you have any areas where pipes are exposed,  I would recommend heat tape combined with pipe insulation.