I am just getting started, so I don't have insight to answer your question but I am applying to Georgetown University for a Masters in Real Estate.

Alternatively properties in the greater Nob Hill area also rent really well as they’re close enough to the University but far enough away that you won’t get cheap college students.

I am in Northeastern Connecticut close to UCONN and Eastern Connecticut University. 

I recently graduated from The University of Texas at Austin and bought my house hack right after.  

It did fall under the universal exclusion, because it was a rental for a year and a half so out of the last 5years, 3 1/2 were my primary (the last 1and 1/2 it was rented out).

I don't know which city in Ohio you are considering but the only one I can see that may still have an optimistic outlook is Columbus. https://www.businessinsider.co...https://www.communitysolutions...This article written in 2017 still valid today  https://www.buckeyeinstitute.o...Good luck.I was fortunate enough to go to school at The Ohio State University.

I am a rising senior accounting major at the University of Notre Dame.

Hi just a heads up, you can find well trained home inspectors in you area with accredited association like InteNASHI https://www.nachi.org/certified-inspectors or ASHI.

Also on the theme of geography as giving populations advantages, according to where populations live, there's the book, entitled, Why The West Rules, For Now, by Ian Morris, 1st published in 2010, & he's now a Prof. at Stanford University.

It is in a "meh" to sub-par neighborhood, but really close to a University.