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Myka and Steve announce they're done with 1-2 bedroom arbitrage in DFW after years of profitable operations. With the market shifting - houses sitting for months, price cuts everywhere, and midterm bookings drying up for small units - they're pivoting hard to purchasing 3-4 bedroom houses and pad splits in C/D neighborhoods. The conversation covers what's working now (workforce crews want 4+ bedrooms, corporate housing providers reaching out directly), what's dying (travel nurses vanished post-COVID, intern bookings slowed), and why they'd rather own five paid-off houses than juggle dozens of arbitrage leases as ACs break in 111-degree heat and property tax bills double overnight.

The episode digs into Steve's new real estate license and how he plans to use creative finance to grab distressed flips before foreclosure, Myka's strategy of living off W-2 income while rental cash flow compounds, the coming 2026 market crash they're positioning for, and why both hosts would rather have equity and tax benefits than another one-bedroom lease in Arlington. They also preview their Friday meetup at Chicken and Pickle in Grand Prairie and explain how to find midterm tenants now that Furnished Finder inquiries have slowed.

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