Many will reciprocate and as you become an extension of each other's brands, it becomes a lead factory in both directions. 🙂  Guests will also appreciate having had a more local experience due to these relationships.To boost your Google search results without additional ad spend, add links to these partner businesses on your website and have them do the same. 

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. 

The 'what you get' for the money factor is highly applicable from Brookings to Astoria and licensable STR coastal vacation rentals are still regularly attainable at workable terms, Luxury and oceanfront and lakefront properties tend to perform above the 10% of valuation in gross annual income for prime coastal STR's and as an example I've seen a $2.1 Million Oceanfront home produce $300k in gross annual income.

One intangible factor is that we'd really like to live in a new area, so if numbers end up being comparable, we'd end up looking out of state for the duplex to rent half of.

These are homes on a steel frame, built in a factory, and delivered to the property.

But timing could be an important factor. I

Prefab container homes built in a factory need to be certified by state and reviewed by state representatives during construction (within the factory).

Another factor is appreciation.

Most commercial lenders won't look at loan amounts <500k (they make the same % commish on a loan for $3M vs $300k, so they go after the higher loan amounts).A 3rd factor is it a MHP (yes, thats correct, many lenders won't lend on MHPs - as crazy as that sounds).

We are barely making it on my husband's factory job.