I grew up in what I would a call “C” class mentality household and although we never trashed a place and in fact my mom would shampoo and repaint before we left, we typically got evicted due to late or missed payments(personally I haven’t missed a due date on a single payment since I was 18). 

I grew up in Illinois and have moved around for work over the past decade living in Wichita, KS, Denver, CO and now Nashville.

I grew up in the area so I'm familiar with the good and bad areas around where I'm looking to invest.

In Oregon there is no mechanism for private developers to float bonds to pay for infrastructure.. its one reason why Oregon never grew as fast as say CA .. and other areas.. 

I grew up in So Cal, but that was a long time ago, so I have no suggestions...

I grew up on the Northside and that was my only reason to ever be over there.It's next to Braddock and most folks rarely mention "Braddock" without saying "warzone", so I would imagine it would be a high risk play to invest in Rankin.

@Maureen Nixon I grew up a little north Detroit, and bought my first eight rental properties in Saginaw and Bay City Michigan.

Well, I grew up in Baldwin County as well! 

I'm an out-of-state investor who lives in Seattle, though originally grew up in Delaware, and want to start investing in an area near home for me.

@Zak Boca I too grew up in Tech and have now invested in over a dozen syndications as a limited (passive) partner in the past 10 years.