I expect the economy to recover quickly under new leadership. 

A client of mine recently invested there and raves aboutt the ease of finding solid contractors who stick to the budget.One piece of advice: before jumping into any market, spend time understanding the local economy, demand drivers (like job growth and population trends), and the landloard laws.

This dragged the process out even longer, making it both exhausting and expensive—I’ve already spent nearly $10,000 in legal fees.

For rates to drop considerably something has to change in the economy.

For a city with such a large metro area and a growing economy, I believe it’s only a matter of time before this disconnect resolves.

We are leaning more toward Johnson City just due to location, size, and economy/industries that are there.

Since your post, I've looked into the DORA and it seems to be a great  boost for the economy right in the neighborhood I am looking at investing in. 

I won’t try to tell you what to do other than if there’s certain properties that just consume way more energy you might consider 1031ing them into slightly larger properties where you could get better economies of scale for your time and expenses.

This is going to become a bigger problem if the economy slips into a recession.

At some point in the future, the economy will have another crisis.