These areas are becoming extremely attractive to investors, due to the shortage of affordable housing and the strong demand caused by the blue-collar workforce employed by the area's factories and plants.  

Washington Court House Ohio is an area I expect to grow as well because Honda is building a multi-billion dollar battery plant there. 

Hindsight is of course 20/20 and I regret all of those excuses, but the second best time to plant a tree is now, so I'm pulling the trigger, market timing, shmarket timing.I'm in the process of selling some inherited hunting property to a family friend to fund down payments on my first few rental property investments, perhaps looking to 1031 if possible for tax savings.

@James Masotti Although I agree with you 100%, I wonder why the City of Wilmington doesn't consider bringing in individuals for those roles that require a college degree, or initiate a program to allow for the proper training for such roles within a legal or banking firm.One thing I would be glad when they figure out is the plan for the old GM Boxwood plant.

I did a lot of this for bean farmers, the loans were used to finance plantings and operations.

Honda has invested $3.5 Billion in Fayette County for a plant that will make batteries for electric vehicles. https://www.dispatch.com/story/business/2022/10/11/honda-to-build-battery-plant-in-fayette-county-ohio-electric-vehicle-hub/69548391007/ Amazon buying even more land!

Furthermore, Intel is spending 20 Billion dollars to build two semiconductor plants, and many more great things presently and coming in the future.

Even with the horrendous furnishings, orange peel textured walls and LITERALLY the ugliest clown fish bedding ever imagined, it somehow has a completely full booking calendar so we wanted to take advantage of that.

You can plant the seed in his mind at this point.

I'm excited for you to plant a flag here in the windy city.