@Eni Ang The risks of Ohio, or at least Cleveland: High property taxes, rust belt, still shrinking population - the long term trend, high unemployment.  

There should be local and portfolio lenders that will still lend but the terms will probably be more conservative and that could shrink your buyer pool if you end up flipping.

As you know, when you look at your first bill from a mortgage lender, the interest rate is going to be as high as 80% or more of the loan and that rate will shrink VERY slowly from month to month.And the banks know that when they amortize your loan It's going to take you 15 YEARS to pay off the first 15% of your principleMost folks don't stay in their homes over15 yearsIf you leave before you get to the end of those 15 years that you will never have your loan average out to that 4.5% that they tell you that you're going to get.

We are the state capital (I don't expect gov't to shrink any time soon), have a major military installment close by (Joint base Lewis-McChord), we have a port, timber, electronics, Amazon distribution center, etc...   

In the low chance a deal doesn't go through I'll just roll the hours spent on that one into the next one and the rebate to me on that one shrinks?

Whether there continues to be thousands of investors or Blackstone/Invitation Homes goes looking for multi-state solutions as they and a few others buy everything up-there is likely to be a day of reckoning concerning the ever shrinking population able to fix anything on a residential home.I’ve never charged for an estimate.

As soon as I see volume shrink I started buying, markets started rising in Sydney and Melbourne.

So when they installed your tile with wet mud, the slab has drawn that moisture out causing it to shrink and crack.

Or, more likely, what if the population for area you're going to invest starts shrinking and you go from 650/mo this year, to 635/mo next year, to 600/mo the year after that...and in 20 years you end up with 300/mo rent and a property you can't give away because it wasn't in the lucky part of Detroit.

The space  in between is shrinking