I am new and feedback like this helps me tremendously.  

Because you have options depending on the city and investing strategy you want to execute.If you're looking for tremendous appreciation, I would recommend buying in Columbus.

@Richie Thomas - Athens and Meridianville/Hazel Green, in my opinion, are not similar at all.Athens has much more potential for growth and appreciation - as @Jeff Henderson said, the job growth near Athens is tremendous, and there is a lot of folks who work in Huntsville/Madison who commute from Athens due to the amount of house/land they can get there compared to the metro areas otherwise.  

Btw, commercial and investment real estate brokers are in a tremendous position to take advantage of the fact that many sellers want CASH.

I spent a tremendous amount of time and resources on those types of things in the beginning.

I worked with Fund & Grow and have gotten a tremendous start with my business, based on the $67,000 support Brandon Kroon provided. 

Filling this void has tremendous value.

I don’t see a rental investment strategy posed in the question here, but it is true that the ratio only has to be 1:1 More details would help tremendously 

With my physician background we are implementing numerous types of health tech and services to allow our residents to live longer, safer and healthier lives - which tremendously sets us apart from the other RAL homes in the community.

It's an older book, published in the 60's I believe but I read "how I turned $1000 into a million in real estate in my spare time" by Bill Nickerson years ago and got a tremendous amount out of it.