On the duplex, We’ll be spending about $20G over the next month in repairs, painting, and furniture but then we’ll be in maintenance mode.  

There are great opportunities for investors, like yourself, to take exposure passively in the low supply /high demand dichotomy screaming out aloud in Real Estate right now.How did it go?

I keep a new water heater in a box in one of my properties in case I need to replace one on a holiday or the plumbing supply place is out.Regular maintenance items are furnace filters, seasonal activations of basement/crawlspace heating, distributing salt buckets, and gutter cleaning. 

I don't want to purchase the additional furniture before I have a good feeling there's some interest.I'd like to post pictures with furniture to gauge interest.

Calculate the demand and supply in Johnson City, TX and it will give you a good idea to build or not. 

I stocked the house over the past two months with enough food and supplies for more than 3 months, sent my healthy teenager to live with my healthy young adult son the minute school closed, and am on extraordinarily strict lockdown with my husband and daughter (who is on immunosuppressive medication).

Hi @Timothy Casallas, once you identify a market you can explore further by drilling down into the demographics like population growth, jobs and wage growth, employment diversity and supply and demand.

We have tons of jobs coming to Arizona and it is a desirable place to live.Also, I heard that houses under 250K were at .8 to .9 months of supply. 

Both months of inventory and active supply dropped.

In my limited experience, I found that if you go through a "local" construction supply store you can negotiate bulk pricing with them.