I'm a bit biased towards Chattanooga, TN myself.

Hey Curt -As Vikram pointed out above, there is a lot of room for personal bias and opinion when it comes to doing an appraisal.

One notable exception was an episode of HBO’s Silicon Valley, where the hapless Jared has tried for over a year to evict a nonpaying “professional tenant” who is currently subleasing Jared’s unit through Airbnb because California’s landlord/tenant laws are so biased in favor of the tenant that an eviction can take close to an eternity.

People should really pay attention to the kind of content they consume, especially the mostly negative and scary news that is oftentimes biased and ultimately leads people to not take action and miss out.

She has family there so there is a bias. 

House hacking is the BEST way to get started IMO (I'm bias, however).

The problem with asking this type of advice in a RE-centric forum is you will get a lot of bias baked into that advice. 

One of my first inquiries on BP, two years ago, Avoiding Bias.

I think Nevada but I live there so I'm biased.

I'm biased since I live in Cobb County, but markets such as Acworth, Kennesaw, and Cartersville could be options for you to explore.Furthermore, so you're aware, acquiring a fix-n-flip deal on-market is going to be difficult.