The property is located in the first ring eastern suburbs of Pittsburgh along dedicated rapid transit line just four stops and 25 minutes from downtown.   

I will in 20 yrs though when they’re all paid off by my tenants.Goal is to pick up extra shifts, keep buying/accumulating rapidly for cash flow before lifestyle creep sets in and I have to buy a mansion and a couple Teslas.

Hi, my rental management company collects one time non-refundable pet fees and monthly pet fees from the tenants. However, they (the rental management company) keep all the monies. None of those pet fees go to the own...

Atlanta seems to be a great place to purchase my first home due its rapidly growing economy.My plan was to buy a single family house for around 200k, and them renting it out.

Grand Rapids is currently cracking down on application fees - https://www.mlive.com/news/grand-rapids/index.ssf/2018/07/rental_application_fee_ordinan.html

I live between Lansing and Grand Rapids and work in Lansing.

I also figured this would be a far-future scenario, because buying my own house in the rapidly-growing greater Seattle area has seemed like an expensive pipe dream. 

I do agree with Harvey as well that some of it has to do with the rapid price increases on the investment properties over the last couple of years. $40-50k flips are now selling for $90-100k - nearly doubled in 2 years in some areas. 

Austin is still growing rapidly as are property values.Also, historically values rise, plain and simple.

To put things in a bit of perspective, nearly all of this rapid gentrification (and it has been rapid in the past 5 years-- you'd barely recognize it from 2010) was triggered by the completion of the Marriott (Pier South) which is a beautiful hotel.