You already have some experience and with additional effort, will quickly climb the REI ladder to its pinnacle.

You may see a loss of value in missed rental income as those continue to climb in our area. 

Physical constraints think SF bay Seattle  etc.. there is not a great amount of area to expand into level easy to develop farm land.many of the rentals you will see will be 50 to 100k in the bread basket and those prices just kind of trundle alongin our markets on the west coast only about 10% of SFR's are rentals.. in many of these other cities this number climbs to 30 to 40% and in some markets over half of the population rents. 

I started my career after college as a full-time supervisor at UPS, but quickly learned that working long hours to make some guy above me look good in hopes to climb up the corporate ladder was not for me.

2) If you can't get that dream job, get a job in your field of study that will enable you to excel and climb the ladder.3) Be frugal.

Tax deferred investment vehicles like the 401k / IRA / SEP IRA will give you tremendous tax advantages especially as you climb the income generating ladder.   

My wife and I have a very small nest egg set aside that is allocated for property aquisition, and that egg grows by the month, so we're not in any hurry.That said, like many other areas around the country, real estate prices are climbing and finding houses on the mls that meet our criteria seems to be going nowhere, which has me looking elsewhere.Looking through the bigger pockets marketplace, I see adds for a few turnkey companies,  and have gone so far as to email a couple in hopes of talking with them this week.

IMO, I don't think Windsor is so dependent on the auto industry anymore, as hits from closures have already happened here in the past & it's still climbing the charts for REI.  

https://www.har.com/content/newsroom/Houston Real Estate Highlights in November • Single-family home sales increased for a sixth consecutive month, surging 25.6 percent year-over-year with 7,990 units sold;• The Days on Market (DOM) figure for single-family homes dropped from 59 to 46;• Total property sales shot up 28.1 percent with 9,660 units sold;• Total dollar volume jumped 43.9 percent to $3.1 billion;• The single-family average price achieved a record high, rising 15.0 percent to $341,765; • The single-family median price climbed 12.0 percent to $270,000 – the second highest median price of all time; • Single-family homes months of inventory registered a 2.2-months supply, down from 3.6 months last November and below the national inventory of 2.5 months;• Townhome/condominium sales jumped 23.4 percent with the average price up 2.5 percent to $224,130 and the median price up 11.8 percent to $190,000;• Single-family home rentals fell 11.1 percent with the average rent down 5.5 percent to $1,882; • Townhome/condominium leases declined 4.0 percent with the average rent up 11.5 percent to $1,674.

When I climbed into the attic it looked to me like the trusses are supported on the exterior walls, but I'm no expert.