Our house borders a wooded area around the lake so theire is wildlife around.

I think that everyone's circumstances are different and you should speak with a cross border specialist.

In our situation, to get anywhere close to a decent cash-on-cash return, I'm guessing we'd have to limit ourselves to studios and 1BD condos within the city, or properties just across the border in Maryland or Virginia.

That would be a fair deal for bucktown if numbers are accurate and it's actually within the border of bucktown proper (many agents lie about this)...

Mc Allen TX on the Mexican border also does not have a WFM so it was not included.

If you live on the border of two states and you rental is 15 min away in another state, you don’t count!!! 

It was a gut call but we just didn't like the burbs on the Indiana side of the border (Hence why we also explored Indy) Our primary problem with the numbers at the time was there just wasn't enough sales activity for us to pull the trigger.

I'd double check with who set up your website because the display URL is http://box2139.temp.domains/~getcasha/ which is not going to help your ranking. 

The strategy that works in these areas is fix and flip (add-a-level) in towns that either have a train line (NJT or LIRR) or border a town that has one.

When it comes to anything even bordering on edge of equity stripping, I wouldn't want to take any risk at all, especially one of a technicality type such as disaster declaration.