The farther you are from home the more time it will take to get your team, manage them, and monitor.  

Since many investors are now open minded and seeking absentee investments in other geographical areas having a national lender in your arsenal will allow for a lender with familiarity with your portfolio or goals when a 'dream' property or 'too good' to pass up investment property pops up in that town you've been looking into. 

If the ownership of this assisted living facility didn't care about the prepayment penalty, and the bank didn't "swipe left" on the property based on things like experience level of the ownership and/or management team, this might be a clear winner. 

All of my tenants are long term tenants and my property is managed by a property management company.

This might spread out your assets into different markets and make it harder to manage but could grow your portfolio quicker.

- Review their portfolio

Since we are not looking for something too fancy, I am optimistic that we'll manage to find a place we like that doesn't break the bank.

You still have to manage the manager to be successful and you will learn nothing.Are you living in the house with no mortgage? 

I am looking to invest 100k, I wasTold York PA was a good place to add to my portfolio I don’t know if this is true ,?  

Ask any property manager who's taken over a building or two from a self-service landlord.There are two things one needs to get into real estate investing.