Lots of new jobs from the health care sector and the military presence is very strong.

My background is in non-profit management and I am currently a program administrator in the healthcare industry.

I am an IT professional of the past 8 years with 6 of those years in the Healthcare industry.

Through no fault of their own, the 2nd hand smoker, especially in the days when airlines were allowing smoking, can develop and have been proven to have higher incidence of cancer.The "empirical cost" was not paid at all by the Tobacco companies and in fact, developed propaganda campaigns to mislead the public.After the mounting evidence reached a certain point, taxes on Cigarettes skyrocketed, for at least 2 reasons. 1) to discourage the use of cigarettes so you DON'T have an increase of getting cancer and 2) to help pay for some of the empirical costs associated with the healthcare costs.In the case of Investors following the OP's strategy is one that I have personally seen time and time again.

Although my career has been based in the health care industry for the past 10 years I finally took that first step into the circle by purchasing my first multi-family four year ago.

My colleagues in health care are a conservative bunch and think I'm crazy so I need to expand my circle a bit to include like-minded folks.

Pat in all fairness its hard to find a college degree that costs less than 35,000 for 4 years now a days, forget it if its a masters program.Tuition has been rising 400% that of inflation (outpacing healthcare by a large margin) and even if you do the majority of your classes at a community college, go to a good state school, earn a scholarship or too, and work through college you will still graduate with debt (which is just what my daughter did minus the debt since I paid for her).

My job is in health care, not related to real estate at all.Thank you so much for any input!

I live on the 2nd and 3rd floors and I rent out the 1st floor to a home health care business.

Working full time in health care, singing in my spare time and renting out a property on the east coast was becoming a bit daunting while rehabbing the latest purchase.