If you want appreciation, identify markets with expanding industries, positive growth trends, and bright economic forecasts.Columbus, Ohio is a great market to consider if you're looking for appreciation markets that still cash flow.

There are a number of meetups in Sacramento and we have been coordinating the dates among hosts so that there is no overlap - I run the West Sacramento Meetup that @Ben Howard mentioned (we gather every 4th Tuesday of the month).Here is a list of meetups that we're in collaboration with (they are all based on an abundance mindset that we have here on BP)- 1st Tuesday - REI Connect @ Roseville Meetup (reach out to @Nicole Masters)- 3rd Tuesday - Investor Mixer @ Crawdads on the River- 3rd Thursday - Folsom Out of Bounds (dates may shift a bit)- 3rd or 4th Wednesday - Real Estate Round Table (CH Cafe & Grill) - they recently relaunched and stabilizing the schedule- 4th Tuesday - West Sacramento Real Estate MeetupI'm working on putting together an easy to access list that Sacramento investors can refer to.

They are mainly in the Metro ATL are but are expanding to Louisville and Houston.

If you prefer to be close to the restaurants, bars and nightclubs, you might be better off in or closer to the town although Tulum isn't that big so you have access to everything from the beach area as well.

In 1950 a law was passed that the City of Detroit could not expand its borders like other cities have done. 

Rent on a 4 bedroom place may be $5000 monthly ($12,000 in Manhattan); rent it by the bedroom for $1500 per bedroom with access to all common areas.  

Yes, full access, so not outsider uninformed of what's being said, taught, promoted, and NOT said, taught etc.. 

You wouldn’t magically have access to hundreds of thousands of more dollars if your credit score was 20 points higher  TLDR: You aren’t being harmed at all by being 780 instead of 800+.

They deny access and say they don't want any cleanouts on their property. 

I'd try to call a few agents and see if they can run sold comps.Once you have access to sold homes, there's nothing to get caught up on.