Experienced investors will want to help you if you show initiative, drive, and genuine interest.

Be serious about it and genuine.

I work as a contractor in some up and coming areas around Johns Hopkins Homewood Campus and MICA, the local arts college that has totally transformed North Avenue.I work with a partner and we have flipped two homes in this area and are currently building 4 spec homes down the street, which we'll be selling for market rate. 

He provided but only one responded yet the response didn't seem genuine.

The floorplan was arranged in a way that some non-load bearing walls could easily be removed, some new walls framed, and with about $40k, the house would be transformed from an un-appealing 2/1 that would lose $300/mo as a rental into a very appealing 4/2 that would cashflow about $500/mo (incl. the debt service for the rehab)...

But for the 'high end' investors I see time to time on BP who trash 'cash flow' C area investing, when I'm currently looking at the market it genuinely seems to make more sense.  

The community is full of people who genuinely just want to help you.

I'm actually going back to the W-2 world to get to my investment goals faster and when you work on commission you truly learn the value of living within your means and how much you can genuinely live off. 

I'll be happy to let you know if this guy is genuine or full of poop.

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.