Though more low end Frog town on the other hand seems like it’s changing for the better at a more rapid pace.

There's money to be made if you know what you're getting into, but I see that area as a niche with higher average operating costs, but potential high-paced equity growth if you can wait 5-10 years.

We have access to a reasonable amount of capital to get started and have great credit so I'm not concerned with being approved for financing once the right opportunity/ies is/are found.I am working on the what my goals are right now but my ultimate goal is to create enough income from investments (RE and otherwise) to leave W-2 work in the next 10 years, buy a sailboat, and sail the Carribean, Mediterranean, and eventually the South Pacific and Indian Oceans or, more to my wife's liking, do some slow-travel around the world stopping in places for 2-4 months at our own pace.

Recently, local home values have paced the inflation rate. 

It feels to us that we could be accomplishing enormous amounts of work, except, we are forced to jump through hoops and our progress depends on the willingness of others who naturally move at their own pace.

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That makes amassing properties at a slow pace as needing 20-25% down and then u run out of traditional financing methods after 6 and then need to seek Portfolio lending and such or seek out if any offmarkets and use hard money for cash buy and then refi. 

We are having great growth in the markets, but if we keep growing at this pace interest rates will have to keep increasing to keep our economy from overheating, which could really stifle the lending market, and in turn could cause problems to those buyers needing financing to purchase their properties.  

Tomorrow is the big auction day of the week, and our title co is moving at a glacial pace.

Overall, the population is aging and immigrants are moving in at a much slower pace.