You take  any city name here and compare it to one that has more growth, more stability, more technology industries, more steel plants, more fracking or corn fields.

At the end of the day HOAs are always money lost, but they are quite helpful as a write-off to offset a little of the income from my full-time employment.Also, I was thinking more along this lines of trying to obtain 5-10 properties, using that capital as a backup security/exit strategy while leveraging OPM, or using the capital to fund the new investments; probably a mixture of the two.

We still have pop corn ceilings right now.

The corn fields are actually easier to acquire, sub-divide and develop.

This is why you see so much sugar in everything and/or high fructose corn syrup. 

TheTransitional District allows a mixture of uses appropriate for creating a mixed liveworkenvironment at a scale and character compatible with the surroundingresidential neighborhoods.

As a had close friends in Rochester, my out of state investing resembled a mixture of your options B and C in many respects.  

., also what about entrepreneurship as a degree, or should I do a mixture of all of them?

He suggested 2 options:1: go through and add fireproof 2x4's and use the fireproof spray can foam to seal them (a bit extensive- it's a very large house). 2: use some sort of fireproof "wool"- he uses stuff made by Owen's Corning but I can't see to find it locally unless I'm commercial, which I'm not.

The fastest way I can think of to reach financial freedom through real estate is a mixture flipping in a good areas and rolling returns into rentals.