I grew up in Boone if you have questions (and still know a lot of folks up there including Realtors).

My wife (@Danielle Berke) and I grew our investments by starting with a duplex house-hack in the Omaha Midtown area and it's been a huge jump start for us.

@Mark Leclair, I grew up in Manchester and know the area pretty well.

I grew up a few towns over (Torrance) and these areas have always been nice, and seem to keep appreciating.

@Tom Shallcross I grew up in Pullman.

Where I grew up they had an older area of town where the street names were in alphabetical order after people....Alward St, Burden Ave, Carney Dr, etc. 

Reason for it is so the government can say money grew, even if only marginally to match inflation.

I grew up in dsm for a little while and remember when it was just a small farm town now it’s really blown up!

Just turned 30, finally grew my portfolio to officially 12 units (Just under $2 million worth) generating a healthy avg. 13-15% cap-rate on each unit with traditional financing over the span of the last 4 years. 

So my wife and i have always wanted to be in rental real estate so we decided to buy a house since a mortgage was cheaper than pay monthly rents. we decided to buy a property that we felt would make a great rental based on the location and numbers... so we bought in town of the school i grew up in..Weve owned the property 7 yrs this past Dec.