Look at an amortization scale. 

“Access to housing—particularly affordable housing—is becoming more and more limited, and that’s going to be a real problem for our region” he continued, “we have major corporations and grand-scale economic investments taking place, but fewer and fewer options in terms of housing for the people who are going to take those jobs.

I think any place I'm going to buy and hold for long term, if there's no large scale technology jobs it's a dying city and I'm rolling the dice.  

Will likely try to hold for 2-3 years while the value appreciates back up and save the cash flow, ideally taking the sales proceeds to scale up.Are there any other investors here in the Salem, MA area?

But it is on a much smaller scale than Youngstown.

With this I was simply able to scale for each new unit: copy xls file, name it after the new property and set up sheets depending on the amount of units in the property.

I am sure it would only attract only the finest up-scale tenants 😨Randy

Keep up the Good work @Joshua Dorkin, well done on scaling the business.The Bigger pockets community helps immensely with investing in the USA all the way from down under N.Z. 

Continue scaling the wholesaling business while working a full time job.My Long Term Goal (pertaining to virtual wholesaling based on you guys opinion if it's doable for someone starting out):Now that the virtual wholesaling business has scaled and I have a solid team; now I want to put that money into income properties.1. 10 virtual wholesale deals a month that profit me at least 100,000 dollars a month after overhead2.

Are you looking to build a big portfolio and scale up?