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.

Who really suffers in this market are the first-time homebuyers who are using down payment assistance programs that simply dont have the cash at all to put upfront for due diligence even if they did want to roll the dice. 

https://www.wdrb.com/news/business/toyota-to-spend-1-3-billi...

The property requires a lot of work since it suffered a major fire.

More sizable plantings.  

Maxing out the HELOC to purchase (your first step) will make the FICO go down about 11-14 points for 60 days so the rate on the refinance second step may suffer.

Furthermore, Intel is spending 20 Billion dollars to build two semiconductor plants, and many more great things presently and coming in the future.

Plenty of great things going on....like Oracle HDQ move to Houston, Tesla in Austin, Several Billion $ worth of chip plants around Sherman, basically new WF HDQ in Irving, Schwab HDQ in Southlake, State Farm and Liberty Mutual insurance in/around Richardson. 

A and B class rentals suffer  big time while C class landlords had waiting lists to get in.

To your point, they are about to develop a massive battery plant between Statesboro and Savannah so that was another draw to that area.