Instead I slowly planted seeds that allowed me to bring up REI without it sounding so scary.

There is 10 new developments all throughout the city taking place on top of the new Chrysler plant. 

@Anthony Holloway I’ve had success in Huntsville Al, good landlord laws, great employment with Red Stone Aresenal, Toyota/Mazda plant, NASA, etc.

I sent some guys to buy 5 small lilac plants for my yard and I was asked for my nurseryman's license.

Intel is a great example, who is building the largest chip manufacturing plant in the US right here, and it will be a $20 billion dollar investment that brings a few new thousand jobs.https://www.dispatch.com/story/business/2022/01/21/intel-ohio-building-computer-chip-factories-licking-county-jersey-township/9173472002/ Another example of economic growth is the upcoming Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center Inpatient Hospital which is a 1.9million square foot hospital that will bring over 800 new beds and a thousand new jobs. https://abc6onyourside.com/news/local/new-osu-hospital-expected-to-transform-health-careHere are a few more recent investments https://www.10tv.com/article/money/business/hydrogen-power-company-hyperion-bringing-700-jobs-to-columbus/530-25907aab-5517-4661-a9f3-d2ed2d5be6b0 https://news.wosu.org/news/2022-02-08/rumpke-to-build-50-million-recycling-facility-in-columbus Check out The Complete Guide to the Columbus, Ohio Real Estate Market which goes through the Columbus, Ohio market in depth and will give you a better scope of where the highest levels of growth are taking place and where to look to invest.

No landlord to tell you when to move out of your house, or if you can paint the walls, or if you can have a dogs, or if you can plant new flowers. 

As they say, the best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. 

Most of these stock market crash posts are being put up as irritants.If you want to stop the world from coming to an end, go plant a tree and stop eating grapes and bananas in the middle of the winter. 

As an unexpected bonus: there was also visible the top part of a sign apparently planted into the front lawn.

@Michael Plante thanks for your response Michael!