21 years in the Fire Service, currently a Battalion Chief.

It too requires hundreds of thousands of dollars to restore it to a liveable standard.There are also a range of other homes currently advertised at considerable discounts.A four-bedroom duplex on West St in northern beaches suburb Balgowlah is currently listed for $325,000 below its original price of $1.9 million.In Belfield in the Canterbury area, a home at Statham St is being offered at a $275,000 discount on the initial listed price of $1.45 million.A unit inside this building at 301/1-9 Meagher St, Chippendale, was first listed at $520,000 to $550,000 but sold for $429,000.Source:SuppliedA two-bedroom unit on Liverpool St in Darlinghurst is advertised at $100,000 below the original listed price of $1.5 million.Realestate.com.au chief economist Nerida Conisbee said it was inevitable that sellers would reach a point where they could no longer command prices $100,000 or $200,000 above what comparable properties sold for months ago and still find a keen buyer.

I think chief among them that people miss is you can recover from the screw ups you're going to make (they are inevitable) much more easily. 

I used to live in Syracuse but would not invest in upstate NY for the reasons you described.

A set of peculiar circumstances have created a very clear reality where I live: there are a LOT more people who want to make money in real estate by paying other people to fix the real estate than there are actually fixing the real estate: all chiefs, no Indians.

My dad was Chief of trauma surgery for a major hospital in Chicago.

Doesnt  need much to get open and operating...I am also in nyc so way too far from me..but not for you if your in syracuse....

Upstate NY(rochester, buffalo, syracuse), ohio (dayton)  st.

@Brad TaylorThere has to be indians for there to be chiefs.

As I posted my nephew & many of his expat friends from NYC made the move purely for the quality of life & safety of their families.More than 100 key Goldman Sachs employees are reportedly poised to migrate from the firm’s New York headquarters to a new office in Palm Beach, Florida.The snub to the Big Apple — which comes as Goldman bankers reported back to the office on Monday after more than a year of working remotely — would mark a shift in Goldman’s more than 150-year-old, New York-centric strategy at the hands of Chief Executive David Solomon.https://nypost.com/2021/06/15/...