Our joists were engineered in Iowa, so we had our contractor send in pictures to the manufacturer to see how it would get fixed.

Seems like the average cost would be about $600 per year and might save some time / headache in repairing or replacing some of the older appliances and especially with some of the older systems.American Home Shield actually let's me select which appliance to cover, so that if I update a kitchen and put in new stainless appliances (with manufacturer warranties), I can take those off the list at AHS and my rate comes down.Or is it better to let the appliance break down, replace them with new ones, and then go with the manufacturer's warranty?

Areas like Vegas (gambling), Florida (tourism), and Detroit (manufacturing) fared the worst in the last recession, and I predict will do the same in the next one.

I have an opportunity for a manufactured home.

In some states you need to disclose manufacture of meth to future buyers, so this could really negatively affect the value.

The IRR is good metric , but for me as buy and hold investor it’s more about the cashflow and manufactured equity.  

Anything that is manufactured or transported has oil costs built into it.

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.

They support a wide range of lock manufacturers.  

I'm curious how many people are: A) flat-out retired so doesn't matter, B)  work locally in, I'm assuming, manufacturing, blue-collar jobs, and other local small business, or C) commuting to and from work in either metro but living there for home price?