It would be in your best interest to choose a company that wants to work in those areas, has the experience and man power to do so. 

@David B.An IRA invested in real estate works no differently than any other IRA when it comes to retirement and distributions.At age 59 1/2, you can choose to start taking distributions from the IRA.  

While you can ONLY see the upside of having the Federal Jobs market heavily invest in the area, I have noted that when these Federal Agencies choose their new communities, they make the chosen one and break the others. 

I'm thinking the old Creedence Clearwater song "Oh Lord, stuck in Lodi again" is appropriate theme music for this thread :)

The reason people choose PVB over the other parts of St.

I have a few inspectors from which to choose from as they are all great at what they do.  

Another consideration that most investors conveniently choose to ignore is that when the send there dollars away to die although they think they are increasing cash flow the ignore the simple necessary calculation of the value of that equity.

Whether you choose to move to a cheaper state is your prerogative. 

I'm guessing that your insurance company would have an issue with this -- in my experience, when you purchase insurance as a contractor, you can't pick and choose when that insurance is in play.  

"Start investing and continue to do so at a affordable rate until you choose to stop".