Depends on your goals and the current market.

From my experience, you can use that savings to house hack with an FHA loan, invest in a turnkey property in a more affordable market, or even partner with others to expand your purchasing power.

Experienced managers can help evaluate potential investments by providing insights on rental demand, market rents, tenant preferences, and location-specific factors that affect leasing success.For example, rental properties need to be close to conveniences like major roads, shopping, and schools.

Every Market (Detroit) has a series of Micro-markets (neighborhoods) of which they are all different in cost, value, cash flow, rents, etc... 

However, I am not closed to the idea of exploring other markets! 

I feel a loss of direction and that makes it really hard for me to focus and build.Do we keep at building a portfolio of small multi family (very abundant in my market, very rare to find anything above a triplex for sale), with plans of selling the portfolio and 1031'ing into larger properties? 

As I settle into the new year with my game plan Im curious to know what Margins investors are looking to receive in this market.

I would look in the smaller markets in the outer band of RTP.

The local market has a lot of opportunities, especially if you’re looking into multifamily or creative financing.

I am now at a point in life where I realized retirement isn’t far off and I need to find something outside of stock markets and 401k’s to invest in.