Thirty-five states (including the District of Columbia) are now represented by at least one market on the list.The index identifies metropolitan areas that have shown improvement from their respective troughs in housing permits, employment and house prices for at least six consecutive months.

I attended the 3 day work shop here in Columbia, sc.

Hi Lauren,I am in the District of Columbia and Northern Virginia, which is a very active and competitive market.

Another one of the really great minds in the real estate investing space, Frank J Gallinelli, will be joining us to speak at the conference.Frank teaches real estate finance in Columbia University's Master of Science in Real Estate Development program, and is author of 3 books "What Every Real Estate Investor Needs to Know About Cash Flow ...," (#9 on Amazon for real estate investments), "Mastering Real Estate Investment: Examples, Metrics And Case Studies," and "Insider Secrets to Financing Your Real Estate Investments..."

I appreciate the quick response.Are you going to the incubator in Columbia on Wednesday?

I live in Virginia and I do business is Maryland and the District of Columbia as well.

Columbia City? 

Erik Stratton i do attend some REI meet ups, only the one in Columbia MD.

A great place to start networking is the BWI Meetup in Columbia.

We thought that would give us enough time to actually move and settle down and start actually learning the area and figure out where to go from there.Regarding the investment question, I don't know much about the market and I'm still just starting my investing career (I own one property in Columbia, SC) but I'm usually looking for SFH.