As such, the city's economic stability could provide a favorable environment for your first investment.Birmingham, Alabama: Birmingham offers a good rental demand, affordable property prices, and a relatively favorable rent-to-price ratio.

@Jared Rine I'd love to connect with you regarding Cash Out Refinance options for a property I am purchasing in Birmingham.

That being said, it has recently grown on me, especially Birmingham for its small town attitude with a huge upswing in what all of your cities called progress about 20 years ago.  

Some entrepreneurs I'm currently inspired by are Clayton Mobley of Spartan Investment in Birmingham Alabama, and Seth Weisman of CityShares in NYC.  

I was thinking about Birmingham, AL.

A travel nurse friend of mine wants to sub-let her furnished apartment in Birmingham to another travel nurse or business executive.Question: how does she protect all parties: her landlord (who is in agreement with this idea), the renter, herself, and her property?

I too, tuned into those cheapies although I buy them in Birmingham.

After that, mortgages for investor were practically impossible which help me to discover Birmingham, AL, where houses are dirt cheap and cash is king...

I have been doing this business for a few years and I have done ok with it, however, recently I moved to a new area (Birmingham) and managed to collect a good list of Buyers.

I manage two units here in California myself, I hire a PM in Round Rock, TX and another one in Birmingham, AL.