Quote from @Ankush Khajuria: Hello All,I hope you all are doing well.I have been following Bigger pockets and am now  actively planning to buy a house for real estate investing.My budget is 200K.I am flexible in buying the property anywhere in United States.I am currently in NJ.Please provide any guidance for cities that I should be targeting as a beginner.Thank youHi Anush, I personally love Columbus Ohio and as someone who works with a lot of out of state investors - there's so many catalysts for why you should invest here.

Hi Christopher, I personally love Columbus Ohio and as someone who works with a lot of out of state investors - there's so many catalysts for why you should invest here.

The coronavirus may just be the catalyst to push global economies in to recession territory if governments have trouble containing it. 

There will always be different international factor, but still US is leading in innovation… so US will be great until we stay innovator.

Require Innovation Homes, Arrived, REIs, etc to reduce the number of SFH they own by atleast 5%, and no more than 10%, each year until they comply with 4

Like it or not, cities like SF, NYC, LA will remain the hotbeds of progress, innovation, culture, lifestyle for a very long time to come.

A lot of CA haters fail to understand the fundamental strengths of CA, innovation, innovation, and innovation.They only look at the negative aspects, but failed to recognize the most important economic driver.Just imagine a US without CA.

Necessity drives innovation

That said, the forces of capitalism have been the driver of human education and innovation, producing a level of human safety and comfort never before seen in history.

This time around we need to focus on massive productivity gains & like after WWII ... programs that tax the wealthy and get the money back to the young in innovative never been done before ways.