Mebane is growing fast but there's still some relatively inexpensive properties to be had out there in comparison with the rest of the Triangle.

The triangle in NC stands out as the highest quality option in those states. 

There's an organization called the Triangle Apartment Association (I am in no way affiliated with them) that I stumbled upon a few weeks back.

These 4 lots have a twist, that others may be missing.A & C are standard small vacant lots (~6,000 sq ft) that touch corners at the road frontage, but have a triangle like lot B in between them.

Hard to find anything in the triangle right now not selling 25-40k over asking, while waiving due dilligence addendums, waiving inspections, waiving appraisals.

My goal is to invest in long term buy and hold properties out of state; currently I am focused on the Research Triangle area in North Carolina. 

I cover the Triangle area, if that is where you are searching. 

If you're in Oakland, you just lost your rent control exemption for owner-occupied duplexes...I run a team in the Bay Area and another in the Raleigh metro and we're right in the middle of working with a number of our Bay Area investors on exchanging out of their local properties and into multiple places in the Triangle ... we're increasing their cash flow and putting them in position for more capital growth (when using conservative estimates).Unless you're dead-set on returning to the Bay Area and wanting to be in that same property, I'd seriously consider exchanging out now. 

Fill out your profile and stay active.Set up your Keyword Alerts for areas around the Triangle that you're interested in such as "Raleigh", "Durham", "Cary", etc.

Also, the Triangle Deal Maker Sessions (check it out on MeetUp or its website) meets the first Monday night of the month.