This is due in large part to major corporations like Intel, Honda, Nationwide Children's Hospital, and Wexner Medical Center investing heavily in the region and creating numerous job opportunities. 

I don't think distance from property needs to weigh too heavily in your answer.  

Do any of you weigh schools particularly heavily in your decisions to invest in a given market?

It is heavily saturated with medical staffing coming in and out of the area.

So with all parks myself and partners are looking at we are heavily discounting that income.

I am more heavily invested in stocks than real estate because of the accessibility a brokerage account offered when I was fresh out of college.

The Orlando Disney market is heavily saturated in the smaller size properties (4 bedrooms or less) rented on Airbnb.

Luckily, we are heavily regulated with zoning and STR IS only allowed in certain areas of Branson, this avoids over saturation.  

Of course continue to read everything you can, be heavily involved on here, read all of the forums and blogs you can on here. 

Nobody is going to do infill affordable housing, there is no money in it unless its heavily subsidized or the city gives away the land.