I grew up near San Francisco and moved to Reno, NV to live and house hack. 

I suspect this is mostly campaign rhetoric that was popular with the current anti immigrant xenophobia that grew out of the pandemic both here and internationally and won the election, but the governments ability to achieve any real change in the population of illegals in this country would be very out of character.   

By February, the median home value dropped 20 percent, bringing the price down to $560,000.TKL found there are now nearly 8,000 homes listed for sale in the Washington, DC metro area, and almost half of them have been put on the market in the last 30 days.The tax-collecting Internal Revenue Service is preparing to fire thousands of workers next week"***************************************************************************Comment: Save The IRS  - said no one, everThis is just  completely made up you can see inventory here, it grew during the summer, and is actually falling now.

You may want to first explore cities that you are already familiar with.Think of cities where you grew up, went to school, like to vacation to or see family.You will have a better idea of what the good / bad parts of town than a brand new city that you are unfamiliar with.Best of luck.

@Malcolm Grundy I almost said North County instead...I grew up in Berkeley and know the area well.

I grew up in the NYC area so maybe my memories of Trump go back farther than others.

And as someone that grew up in Missouri, this post caught my eye, particularly because I'd never heard of Lebanon, MO so I had to look it up on Google Maps.

I'm not completely foreign to the construction process as I grew up around a family that was involved in home building, but due to living in another state I can't really lean on them for the direct, hands-on guidance. 

The way I grew up was being raised extremely frugally and investing in this course has made it so my parents have less trust in me in regards to real estate.

My friend grew up on Lewis and DeKalb and we were always talking about buying brownstones when they were 125-200k.