After searching for a real estate agent in Houston on Biggerpockets I keep getting responses from people from New Western Acquisitions.

No western economy allows unfettered capitalism, because it leads to anarchy in short order.

For example, how can I compare Brevard (I work in a plant of 800 people and know several who commute from Brevard) to Cullowhee which has the University of Western Carolina to Leicester which is commuting distance to a smaller college but is closer to the city of Asheville to Black Mountain which has the HQ of Ingles?

I often thought we should get the activists to flip the script and demand that SF homeowners be capped at a 10% increase on resale due to the outcry about people unable to afford the proverbial "American home ownership dream."

We took a 3 month trip to Western US two years ago.

Finding a cap rate >7 on a duplex with positive cash flow in Western Washington seems like a unicorn in this market, but we found it and so far I enjoy mowing the lawn every 2-3 weeks as an excuse to check in on the tenants.

Big money in turnkeys in western Pennsylvania!

We have 3 of the 30 most armed counties in the country and you have a lot of hunters (Could just be a Western PA thing).

Terry:One of the reasons that taxes are so high in relation to the value of the property is that the properties are worth significantly less than in other parts of the country.2% taxes on a $1mm property are 20k a year...Taxes on a $80k property at 2% would only be $1,600  a year.Another HUGE problem is that a LOT of these mid-western cities have BLOATED government structures....they are burning money on education, they have a LOT of retired workers with underfunded pensions, they have LOTS of current workers that are not very efficient.It is a huge problem that is going to get bigger/more attention in the near future.  

@Austin FoxAustin, I own multiple properties with cast iron stacks up here in western PA, all built well before 1963.