Probably just my CT/New England mindset, but of the 3 big reasons to buy investment properties (cashflow, mortgage pay down, price appreciation), price appreciation is a distant 3rd place, ESPECIALLY as you say, if rent rates are not keeping pace with these price appreciations. This has the same dangerous bubble written all over it we saw back in 2004-2007. I say this jokingly, but half serous too, might as well take a peak at which Canadian weed stocks Reddit is pumping today.
Granted, Columbus and the Midwest as a whole have a much brighter future than the has-been, high tax, one-party, poor economy cities and states of the northeast, but a lower growth rate would make me feel more comfortable on consistency.
@Brandon Sturgill, I wish you and the area nothing but the best because nothing pleases me more than seeing a part of the country deemed by the hoity-toity types as fly over country explode back on the scene. It’s a great American story! Just seems to be getting too white hot right now.