I recommend looking into Connecticut, it is a very hot market right now due to the mass exodus out of the City.You can use the Bigger Pockets calculators to start.

Check out this article regarding investing in suburbs: https://www.jasonhartman.com/americans-are-moving-to-the-suburbs-en-masse/

I try to be strategic about my purchases there, first drilling down for cashflow and then taking a step back to see if I can put myself "in the path of potential future appreciation" as I like to say.It's worked phenomenally well for me and I'll continue investing in Detroit until the masses are beating the drum on the city.

Afternoon’ from a foggy Mass.

In my humble opinion, I hold the belief that the present cycle of mass foreclosures has several years left.

Hoping to be in good shape in < 6 months, then start purchasing.We're both pretty excited, and I'm listening to audiobooks and podcasts en masse while I drive.

Find areas with convenient mass transit to downtown or Midway (if airport is your market) and you can get some cash flow (not great, but some) and some appreciation.Just ideas, feel free to ignore, but until you tell people what your druthers/tolerances are, not much advice people can give.Oh -- NETWORK, NETWORK, NETWORK

Now, I try to prevent all hiccups, by mass emails to all key players.

If you were to stick-build to a high efficiency (i.e. offset wall with no thermal bridging, proper envelope sealing, and substantial thermal mass on the inner walls), your cost variance to a modular built home will be much smaller.

This seems like a personal financial decision that shouldn't be promoted to the masses, considering the masses are blinded by the hand picked examples of the great wealth to be made in RE.