I have "made a living" at it for 14 years (actually contributed to my $3.5 Million in my IRAS that I hard money lend) and St.

Intel is a great example, who is building the largest chip manufacturing plant in the US right here, and it will be a $20 billion dollar investment that brings a few new thousand jobs.https://www.dispatch.com/story/business/2022/01/21/intel-ohio-building-computer-chip-factories-licking-county-jersey-township/9173472002/ Another example of economic growth is the upcoming Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center Inpatient Hospital which is a 1.9million square foot hospital that will bring over 800 new beds and a thousand new jobs. https://abc6onyourside.com/news/local/new-osu-hospital-expected-to-transform-health-careHere are a few more recent investments https://www.10tv.com/article/money/business/hydrogen-power-company-hyperion-bringing-700-jobs-to-columbus/530-25907aab-5517-4661-a9f3-d2ed2d5be6b0 https://news.wosu.org/news/2022-02-08/rumpke-to-build-50-million-recycling-facility-in-columbus Check out The Complete Guide to the Columbus, Ohio Real Estate Market which goes through the Columbus, Ohio market in depth and will give you a better scope of where the highest levels of growth are taking place and where to look to invest.  

Unless they have their own cash; and tens of millions of it, most will drown.

If it is 150 units at $30K per door, that would be a $4.5 million purchase price.

So, for easy math, let's say $1 million as that's roughly what I'd get to sell them in current condition after transaction costs.

Some have more than $1 million in equity while others have less.4.

I've sold $200 Million worth of Cleveland rental real estate.....A whole lot of that is listing and selling property for people who thought they could successfully do this.....They couldn't.

Landlords who pay attention, are ready to wait, play by the rules of the local laws, and have enough volume or cushion to ride out the outlier experiences, have seen, and I believe will continue to see, the benefits of lack of competition accrue to them to the tune of millions of dollars. 

If it were as easy as plopping down 50k for 3000k a month in five years it would be millions of people doing it.

I can help a lot I do this in Columbus Ohio and Miami Florida but as a service for now not purchasing them. if you are going to do larger deals look for the largest gap in entitlements, density, and asset value as a land driver. for example we found a piece of land in Columbus Ohio that was 55k and we just got an appraisal for 1 million based on the rezoning application that we did for mixed use commercial.