Here’s how:Rents adjust: Over time, rental income tends to rise alongside (or above) inflation, offering natural protection.Fixed debt, rising value: While your mortgage payment stays the same, property values and rents climb—widening your margin.Tangible asset resilience: Unlike stocks or crypto, real estate is a physical good with intrinsic demand—people always need housing.We’ve seen this firsthand across the Baltimore Metro area.

I normally vacation along the Florida panhandle like Perdido key, Panama city beach etc. and so naturally, as a real estate investor my antennae go up when I travel there and my curiosity starts to tug at me wondering if this is something viable for me. 

But its functionality as a sophisticated platform for tagging, triggering responses, interacting with leads via SMS, direct calling  and linking with other platforms...Carrot, even with the 'new CRM' falls short...well short.

Congrats on successfully branching into flipping, it’s a natural extension of your agent experience and gives you a big edge in sourcing and evaluating deals.

My understanding of human nature tells me that most of these schools are there primarily for the monetary profitability (which is not to say they can't be good schools, but I bet that's not the primary reason they exist).

If this is your first transaction of this exact nature, maybe a test run of one house would be wise.

If you simply let human nature run the course without government regulation, this is the result.

Hi @Mila F. great to meet you here on BP:) Nests far from the home, in a wooded area, and possibly attracted by tenant activity like composting….it leans more toward being a part of living close to nature.

Since these acts are spiritual in nature and not tied to producing income, they wouldn’t qualify as deductible business expenses under IRS rules.

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