Bloomfield schools are not the best, though some of the elementary schools are quite nice. 

@Noah Bacon my sister was the one put down over 250K down payment for the house, I had been helping paying their mortgage for most of the time because my nephew has no money since he is still in school, just his name is on the loan and title.  

Describe a magical tool that would solve the most challenging part of real estate investing.Thank you for taking the time to read this.

Credit Unions can be great but you're at the mercy of their individual guidlelines and old school Underwriting "gut checks".We(Lower.com), offer HELOCs on investment properties and 2nd homes, we go off of the "Agency Definition" of a 2nd home which is "occupied for some portion of the year".

Hey Miles,I am currently in graduate school in MEM for physical therapy, and over the last year or so I've been diving into the real estate world by reading books, researching online, etc.

There is two properties I'm going to look at tomorrow morning. 1 is in York City in a good block relative to the area and another I'm really excited about in northeastern school district that has opportunity for value add and is priced appropriately.

Luckily I was driving over with my son to move all his stuff from his apartment to a storage unit at WSU so he can move into a single apartment for his grad school work.I was thinking it was the 2 water line screens.

But there's no school like managing it directly and learning from our guests and others.

Either way its two great spots both for schools and overall strong growth in residential and commercial.  

Ithaca is like another planet.STRENGTHS-  appreciation is pretty much guaranteed, no matter how crummy your property is-  student housing isn't restricted, they'll live anywhere-  having an ivy league school means there's a lot of money flying around-  rent is high-  tons of development and growth going on-   strong STR performance outside the city properWEAKNESSES-  almost absurdly high prices-  similarly absurdly low cap rates-  pesky annual inspections required on multifamily properties-  most deals happen behind closed doors, and agents tend to be very unhelpful-  5-7% cap rates typical, sometimes lowerSummary: Ithaca is a great market to park your money in and wait.