It's a great way to talk through your plans and goals for real estate with people that actually understand! 

I do want to thank people for taking the time to answer this. 

I provide houses for people that might not get other opportunities.

Steady pay, you can learn how to manage property and deal with people, and you'll be licensed to handle sales on the side.

I want to help as many people as possible to get to where I am and beyond.Thank you for posting. 

Generally larger commercial properties and shopping centers are easier to classify with hard and fast rules, but to the points above the residential areas really move very quickly and have way more nuance than most people care to admit.zip codes are generally way too large for my liking at least in my market to provide any kind of insights other than macro level economics but even then highways or rivers that cut through a zip code can end up with totally different trade areas.we can get pretty granular with cellphone data and with grocery center data to understand the trade areas and their true boundaries, but that kind of data pull is generally only cost effective for investors doing larger scale projects or developments, and honestly we still just end up getting on the ground and feeling it out, so I generally tell people that the money is better spent on a plane ticket and weekend trip in the area you are looking rather than any kind of "trade area" level data studies.and generally B class in 1 area means something different than another. 

Lots of DC area people on here.

I feel sorry for the people losing everything in the fires , insurance will go up .But I wish I was the guy  driving this bulldozer ;t=162s

I bought a single family because I thought I could house hack in the same way as a duplex and in ways it certainly could have and did work but I didn't expect the relational aspects of having people living in a property I purchased.

Justin made posts here about how much "he spent" rehabbing units that wound up belonging to other people.