With the western spread of Chicago commuters and all the logistics companies setting up shop not to mention UNI, I don’t think you could go wrong.

I am a newbie real estate investor in the Memphis, TN - western TN area.

I don't have a defined plan yet but I am open to invest elsewhere, probably in western Canada or the U.S..

At this point you need to engage a local civil engineering firm to do a due diligence report for you .. taking in all these considerations this would cost 3 to 10k.. and money well spent.. wetlands , If its state of WA is a huge deal.. zoning helps but does not give you a right.you have to engineer all this.. and septic systems are huge in Western WA. and can be very expensive.. without city sewer and water..

First Western Federal Savings Bank (http://www.firstwesternfederal.com/) will fund loans that NASB often won't and they're pretty easy to deal with.

While I keep a kean view on new small MF listings (3-4 unit) that enter the market, I have also considered and am looking in Western NJ as far as about 40 mins away from Bergen county.  

We bought a building in western PA.......and found out about the tax at closing. 

Most of the time out in the western states, you just make the cashier checks payable to yourself and endorse the back if you are successful bidder, and you can vest in your name or name of your LLC with little questions asked.

IMO violence in the media and therefore in western culture, along with other social dysfunction prevalent in society today, is a huge and unspoken part of the problem.

all good advice, assuming all municipalities are the same, which they are not. here in western new york, every place is different from the next. one government may allow you to do everything without a permit and couldn't care less about anything, and the very next will have regulations so bad that you wouldn't drive thru the damn place, let alone buy a house there. i do whatever i want, whenever i want and the less these people know about what you are doing, the better. sounds like i am doing something " illegal", but if i own the place, i have paid my dues and i should be able to do what i want with it. i bought one house that had an added on room on the back, and it was so bad, i was quite sure it was " unpermitted". well, long story short, i talked to the building code guy and he said that it was unpermitted, and i would have to get a permit to tear it down, as was my plan. i asked him why i would have to get a permit to tear down something that they didn't even know was there. he decided to let me tear it down without a permit. these people can be worked with if you treat them right, but personally, i will try to get away with as much as i can, but then again, thats my nature