When I was doing turnkeys in 2012-2015 I was in Birmingham, Atlanta, Indianapolis.Other popular markets: Gary (IN), St Louis, Huntsville, Phoenix/Tempe/Mesa, Kansas City, Memphis, Little Rock, Indianapolis, Harrisburg (PA), Greenville, Jacksonville, Tampa, Houston, San Antonio, Little Rock, Milwaukee, Cincinnati, Dayton, Cleveland, Ohio, or other secondary or tertiary markets. 

One popular option is multifamily syndication, which has a lot of potential for scaling up.

I am currently reading “How to Invest in Real Estate” by Joshua and Brandon to get insights into basics of some popular strategies and then plan to start analyzing deals to gain better insight into what currently feels like a good fit for me.

They gained popularity in the late ‘70’s and early ‘80’s when interest rates were in the teens and money in short supply.They also became popular with promoters, “dream merchant gurus” and fraudsters who saw an easy way to cut themselves into a deal without putting any of their own money into them.I do a lot of probate and trust litigation work and have completed several thousand of my own deals over (45) years as a specialist.However, I don’t think that’s going to be the issue here.

It's become popular in that circle to whine about it, so it's a great way to get clicks. 

I think this is good advice and I know a very popular lender here ( not me)  who still keeps his day job and has 200 homes, he has some wholesalers bring the deal and has a solid contractor do the work. 

The competition is all 20+ years old; so, I suspect this new build could get the highest ranking on the popular OTAs.  

LuisI clean these up all of the time because a "guru" out there, very popular by the way, is giving bad advice.

In many markets (including those most popular for "cash flow" these days), appreciation is in fact a myth. 

ARMs do seem to be getting popular again but they’re actually hard to qualify for and are way different than the pre ‘08 arms.