I have friends in PR, it one the most beautiful places on earth IMO.  

My inspections for Investors tends to focus on what the buyer will need to rehab to bring it up to proper living conditions for their goal, and to also bring sellers back down to earth about the condition of their home.  

to Patrick Desjardins , ALL you said is true and you are in Virginia , can you imagine how it is in New York City simply hell on earth for the small or even the mid size investor , flipper etc ... i say take what Patrick say word by word and do the best plan you can and if things do not work for you and you can just move to a different market / state real estate is local and being at you back yard is very important - so make a new back yard move Patrick DesjardinsPatrick Desjardins

And Hershey, PA. is "the sweetest place on earth", it even smells like chocolate.I've been to Stockton.

Why on earth would you buy out of state?

@Wes Blackwell  the trend to buy in the sac area and the golden foothills has been going on since the late 70S early 80s when the first real run up on Bay area prices occurred and its never really slowed down.. nothing new or earth shattering.Oregon as you know gets many many CA transplanting here.. and our price structure is basically the same as where your at from Sac up to rocklin over to Eldo hills etc... although you can buy cheaper homes just north of down town than you can find anything in Portland market we simply do not have any sub 100 to 120k homes like Sac does.. we have been doing deals there and doing quite well at it.

Sometimes it takes them days and days of being on the market for the sellers to come back to planet Earth in terms of realistic price for the house.

Sit at home and get on google earth .

An earth shattering idea, I know.

Far less risky to "live life now" than hope you are still on this earth to live it in your golden years.My apologies if this is not exactly the kind of response you were looking for...but I hope you will find some value/motivation in my story.