It's such a rock solid neighborhood -  16 min Metra/30min Blue line to downtown, 94 and 90 access, bus terminal, and a disproportional amount of city workers with good incomes and families.    

She just kind of mentioned it out of the blue without any call to action, which triggered my initial post. 

Santa Clara is prime blue chip real estate.

They ain’t blue, they’re purple. 

If you want to stick to the DC/MD/VA area, you might want to consider house hacking a SFH and Airbnbing an extra level/room/basement/crawlspace/fallout shelter-- like you said multis are few and far between here, but you might be able to find some in areas that show up as that beautiful deep navy blue on the Trulia crime map.I live in northern VA but do all my investing outside the area. 

Classic case of a city that once manufactured one or more products and had a strong blue collar influence, but now is mainly low income service jobs.  

Hi all, I remember listening to a biggerpockets podcast (the subject was wholesaling) where the guest mentioned a "blue book" that he had developed that was like a script for his employees to follow when speaking with a seller or buyer in regards to owner financing.

I wonder if it will bring mainly 'blue collar' jobs to the area.

Once in a blue moon you read about a deal dying because no one thinks about this, but that's only because everyone completely ignored it, rather than thinking about it upfront like you are here. 

I just paid about $2k to do a whole house but that included painting the walls a lighter color and repairing all of the small cracks and holes from the previous owner hanging pictures and shelves all over the walls.