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As stated before there are some good areas that are showing steady growth in this market.  

Gloria above kinda touched on the Indy market but Indy is great market to look into for a lot of different reasons such as population growth, housing inventory, and cost of entry.

The only challenge when being a full time investor that depending on how much passive income you are generating from your investments that can slow you down in your growth or maybe you have enough to continue at a comfortable pace.

I've created a daily schedule and habit tracker that fully aligns my daily habits and tasks with my longer term goals.

Steady appreciation: While not experiencing the dramatic spikes of some markets, Midwest real estate has shown consistent, stable growth over time.3.

My advice is to look into markets that have great macroeconomics with both population growth and job growth.

You'll probably get exhausted with this so you need a PM who serves at the ground level so you can focus on higher value tasks. 

We have seen rapid growth in the macroeconomics - population growth, job growth, and major companies moving and developing here like Intel, Meta, Amazon, Google, Ohio State University, Nationwide Children's Hospital, etc.

It will likely be more rent growth and property appreciation over time.When I sold my starter house here in Canton next to Woodstock it sold for all cash in 3 days.