Have also done work in DC and Maryland and would say Virginia has significant benefits over DC and Maryland because it is more business friendly and jurisdictions are willing to work with not against developers on projects I mentioned as well as you mentioned With the federal government and government contractors not going away - area is great for investment.

So I used to work for a basketball tournament that played in Washington IL every year and so I often visited that town plus Peoria.

I flipped 2 houses w a partner. 1st house was a loss of about 60k ea!

Also, there will be permanent migration to northern coastal California, Oregon, Washington, Vegas, Texas, Tennessee, Florida, NY and anywhere else families can find a permanent refuge from the trauma as the recover, rebuild or restart. 

Hi John,I like playing with raw land, too, in Snohomish county, WA, just north of Seattle. 

Quote from @Tom Gimer: @Jay Hinrichs We essentially have an in-house abstractor (Salt Abstracts — MD; M&M — DC), so when I REALLY need it I can have title in ~1 hour.I try not to be that demanding often but it’s a nice resource to have access to. not everybody has an abstractor on Speed dial LOL..

Then you have to see in your state your right to cure lawssome states like the ones we worked in Or and WA you could cure right up to 5 minutes before the sale was going to be cried.

I agree we need to work w/ a CPA for their 2025 income taxes, and will be looking for a recommendation soon. 

there are so many threads on BP from folks in NYC or CA or DC who bought a property in a "low cost" market and immediately regretted it:https://www.biggerpockets.com/forums/963/topics/1195280-expe...https://www.biggerpockets.com/forums/48/topics/1160450-run-i...https://www.biggerpockets.com/forums/48/topics/1137397-balti...https://www.biggerpockets.com/forums/52/topics/1010977-12-00...i provide this information not to discourage you, but so that you can learn from what they did without making the same mistakes.  

A short time later, I found myself on a plane to Spokane, Washington, to attend an Inner Circle class which was taught by Lee Arnold personally.