Investment Info:

Single-family residence buy & hold investment.

Purchase price: $508,000

Cash invested: $100,000

Bought this house brand new and added a pool. Then furnished it and renting it out...

I'm not sure who the current primary employers are ...in the past, it was manufacturing (which is now probably gone), rail road (now probably diminished), and healthcare (I know that one of the bigger hospitals in the area closed a while ago, and I'm not sure if it was replaced).  ...These days, I'm assuming tourism may be bigger than it was when I was young, but I don't know if tourism has been enough to keep the city in good economic shape...

Apart from the sites already mentioned, you can also list on Hello Landing which is a site used by a mix of traveling healthcare professionals and digital nomads.

(I know you're not a family of 4, but I figure a dog and a few meals out is about equal to a kid ;-) )Also, if you ever decide to get married, you should do it because it's a great fit for your family, but I want to mention that getting married is financially advantageous for healthcare and taxes. :)

Eventually during those 24 years the cost of my partner and my health insurance got to be $1400 a month and I took a full time job to get health care coverage for us as well as some other benefits.

The main thing I tell my clients is that they have to realize they are almost leaving the real estate business and entering the health care business when they open an ALF.

Residential Assisted Living homes are proving to be a growing and lucrative niche for the real estate and health care investor/entrepreneur.The senior housing industry is currently estimated at over $300 billion annually and growing rapidly.

The growth outlook for all Jacksonville is quite favorable based on a lot of factors but the ones I like the most include: recession resistant jobs (healthcare/Navy/finance/financial tech/transportation/insurance), just to name a few of the bigger industries here.

Additionally, the proximity of the property to the state-of-the-art Cedars Sinai facility makes it attractive to high-income doctors and other healthcare professionals.My ideal demographic consists of individuals or families who require a conveniently located place to stay within a 10-15 minute drive to their workplace and the LAX airport.

Healthcare is outrageous, electricity, heating oil, gas, TAXES are all the highest in the nation.