The pandemic is a once in a lifetime event which suddenly reversed real estate fortunes of folks in far reaching sleepy towns.

@John WarrenI appreciate the insight, although I find it quite difficult to look for a business when I have school and work already on top of me, barely giving me enough time to sleep. I

I'm too sleepy to make a huge post on your calculations but they are way, way off.

If you have to pay in advance, pay only an amount that you can afford to lose it without losing sleep. I

ETC.One thing I do when I drive an area (though I know my own area in my sleep): I drive around at 1 or 2 PM on a mid-day weekday, like a Tuesday or Wednesday.

Longview itself doesn't have growth potential, we are a bit of gluttons for punishment to live or invest here.As far as safety, the college butts up against a nice neighborhood, but also against a park where homeless people sleep.  I

Most cities have a sleepy little town within 30 mins.

It's a place that could be something more, but somehow got forgotten in time, but never disappears. sleepy place.

In response to Sal, I so far have been looking at White Plains, Yonkers, Tarrytown, Sleepy Hollow.  

I just cant fathom that a house on the beach in Galveston, an hour away from Houston, one of the biggest cities in the country, would get half the revenue of a house in a sleepy small town.