Hello,In My Experience...DC is the Hottest and still most up and coming/stable market in my opinion.I've only flipped properties in DC, butIm from Springfield VA.Northern VA is much harder to come across GREAT Fix/Flip or wholesale deals.DC and PG county are more abundant in Distressed Old full of Equity properties..This is why everyone and their mom markets to those areas using these boring postcards or letters.Which means.....you must have unique marketing strategies that work to get Real Deals ;) Would love to connect with you.DM me if interested.ThanksRaphaelAce Equity Pros

I'm not going to get into the WV state politics on here, but I'm in the Huntington/Charleston markets and do buy/hold rentals, and only buy homes under $30,000 and lately they have all been under $20,000.If you are wanting to flip houses then look into the St Albans/Teays Valley area as that's the hottest market in our area right now in terms of things selling quickly.If you are wanting long term buy and hold homes then Charleston/Huntington is the best market I know of.

If so, pull up the MLS and see where the hottest zip codes for cash transaction for your area and farm it.

Seek out the hottest locations where the most of the closings are happening and try to go to that area.  

It tends to show up during the hottest part of the summer & diminishes as the weather cools down.

I would start in the closest hottest area in your area.

Hilltop, Linden, whitehall are the hottest parts where we have seen home prices rise between 18-24% YoY for the last 2 years. 

In this area it seems like the summer is the hottest part of the year for rental properties.

Can you even buy deals that cash flow in the hottest market in the country?

That’s the hottest market in Ohio.I work with an investor out of Israel, he has several properties in the Cleveland, Dayton, and Akron area as well.