Who knows if universities will even open for in person classes in the Fall.

Does anyone have experience with investing in Columbia specifically around the university, 5 Points area?    

New product in a market with little new product being introduced despite diversified employment base (State Farm, Illinois State University, Country Financial, Rivian Automotive, etc.).

Indianapolis, CBus, Milwaukee are all close in size and those people are typically packed into maybe 2-5 counties at most.Then honestly, you leave a place like Detroit and you drive a hour in each direction to Flint, Lansing, or Toledo you have decent size cities that have a major-large university, a trauma 1 medical facility, and it's on TV Newcastle and media market.In many places in the Southeast from my experience that just isn't the case.

The bad news is that Columbia is the state capital and those buildings, all the universities, Fort Jackson and hundreds of churches do not pay property tax. 

If you don't want to come quite this far, you can check out Converse, Universal City, and Selma area.

It is typically where old money has been in Charlotte with it being close to Queen University.I'm not as familiar with the pulse of that region as I am of say the University/Matthews area, where I lived from 2000-2015.

While it is wise to pay down debt, it is also smart to have emergency funds due to the global issues we are facing. 

I am also interested in areas around Chicago, which is where my wife's job has their global headquarters, and because my accountability buddy @Marshall Shen is based there, so I learn about the market from him!

It’s also about midway between two private colleges, Indiana Wesleyan University and Taylor University, which are each about 10-15 minutes away from Gas City.