American Samoa, a population of 44k and easily accessible (nearly 10k miles away). 

Half of nothing is nothing . 

I recently moved out to care for my parents for an indeterminate time, 60 miles away.

Purchase price: $210,000 Cash invested: $21,000 2/2 condo, in a 314-unit complex. 1.7 miles from the beach, great location.

Tisch Center of Hospitality, has released a series of CapEx studies showing hotel capital expenditure spending has been half of pre-pandemic amounts in period 2020-2023.The impending debt crunch faced by commercial real estate over the next 18 months has also been widely reported. 

I wish I could have started buying in 2012 but unfortunately I was a broke college kid and did not know about real estate investing.Personally I still think Columbus is going to continue to explode - "Columbus’ population grew 1.1% in the second half of last year, which is faster than any other city in the U.S." 

*We purchased another home a few miles away from the condo. 

When a tenant switches from one assistance program to another often I don't get paid for a month and a half during the transition.

But because two investors own the majority of the units in this complex, they keep the condo fees at $150/month (about half the area average).

I also mispoke previously, we have about $275,000 in equity in our house with roughly half of the mortgage paid off and our realtor believes our home has appreciated by $80,000.We don’t have any immediate need to sell it for the money.