If you chose to invest in OH, or anywhere else-- get on a plane and go see it!   

Big-time real estate investors are either so well funded that a dud property won't kill their finances, or have an understanding of houses and layouts similar to David, by having been in thousands of houses.Unless you are an experienced real estate investor, I would NOT buy sight-unseen.If you can't afford the plane trip, you can't afford to be buying the house. 

that is a good plan Eli

After my first two years, I had three credit cards - two that I swapped back and forth between using regularly to pay for basics like gas and food, and a third that I held on to for big expenses (car repairs, plane tickets, etc.).

Grow up...Getting on a plane may sound easy for some.

This time it was planes.

Especially if you are planing to buy more.

An hour to the beach (AC Expressway), an hour and a half to the mountains, trains/planes/automobilies to NYC, Baltimore, and DC.

I don't know how to fly a plane, but I'm pretty sure when I'm around an airport, and I look up in the sky, someone IS flying those planes.

Once your aunt calls you up and begs you to wire some money to Rome so she can fly out of Athens with a plane ticket bought with her last hundred bucks to pick it up, your attitude regarding the importance and role of money in your life shifts drastically, and there's no going back.What is money good for?