Columbus is really hot right now with strong population growth, job growth, and big companies moving or expanding here like Intel, Amazon, Google, Facebook, Honda, Microsoft, and LG, which keeps rental demand high and appreciation potential strong.

I just think now may not be the best time to buy multi-family in formerly Hot markets, like Austin MSA, that are clearly going down in price.

The way of life is still affordable, and the city isn't as big or hot as Houston.

They can’t review the “hot” deal their broker just sent them because they’re too busy categorizing emails in color coded category’; they can’t attend the on line networking session because they need to switch over to a more detailed CRM system; they can’t visit the property going up for auction because their scheduled weekly garage cleaning is running overtime…..The Student – This person never feels they have enough knowledge, experience or education to properly evaluate an investment.

Script a daily scrape or API pull, normalize owner + parcel IDs, geofence by buy box, and push hot leads to a simple dashboard with scores like days‑delinquent, equity proxy, and landlord tag.

Then magically you'll get "declined" and never hear from them again.Another variation of this is washing hot checks.

I will also have a VA loan from the air national guard and tri-care for extremely reduced price health care.With this I have the chance to save lots of money, house hack every year with the VA loan and invest with my signing bonus.My biggest question would be what to do with the signing bonus.

It was worth it figuring out how to get texting up and running because my cold calling leads kept taking longer and longer to convert into deals (over 120 days even for hot ones).

Just make sure it’s someone who actually does deals in the area, not just talks about them.Florida isn’t “too hot” to get into, but it’s definitely competitive, especially in places like Miami, Tampa, and Orlando.

As an Air Force veteran, I received my start in real estate investing using VA loans.I wish you all the best in your journey.