This influx of high-paying jobs (averaging $60 per hour) is expected to draw a significant number of professionals to the area, boosting demand for housing and various services.

@Jaxin Piercestart with a house hack."

If it is a duplex then I comp it like a house with an ADU.

The loan is with you, not with your tenant, so none of that means anything to them - in fact because you live in one unit and it's under 4, if you were self-managing you don't even have to abide by fair housing laws (at least on the federal level). 

Our IR team is vertically integrated in-house and not outsourced.

I bought my first house when I was 24 and now have 5 relatively small properties in Michigan!

It's best to have a house manager.

There could be some real interesting back and fourth discussions to be had on the pro's and con's and risk's of these sub $200k houses in the Midwest, but I've been through thousands of tenants at thousands of these 100 year old properties in my career, and I've never been sued for a sidewalk slip and fall.

We are not familiar with any of these markets, nor do we have anyone trustworthy there, or a real estate agent.Our approach would be both rental and house flipping.

If you need help with landlord laws, house backing strategies, or traditional MTR investing specific to New Jersey happy to help.