Looking for others opinions on these places or other areas that match this criteria.

Just am commenting on an opinion.

Hi @Karen DiNapoliGood question.In my opinion: it's all about the cash flow, not necessarily about the taxes or the other expenses.So for example, I live in the Philadelphia area and in West Philadelphia the taxes are lower than they would be in the county outside the city where I normally invest.

Hearing peoples opinions on BP on where to invest is like asking someone their favorite football team. 

Without knowing the area I cannot give you my honest opinion of the investment or if the rental values are accurate.

In your opinion, is it?

I've been managing places for my aunt up here and in SoCal for about a year now and personally believe that how often a tenant asks for fixes is more based around their personality than anything else.Take my opinion with a grain of salt as I've never used a PM service so don't have any data to actually compare.

Here’s our OPINION for the Metro Detroit market (use as a template for your target area!)

But in my experience, if you ask the opinion of five accountants on anything, you typically get five conflicting opinions.

This is the best way to start becoming a real estate investor in my opinion, I did the exact same thing by taking out that HELOC to buy a new one.