If you're looking at a different market, consider the following top-level criteria: Business-friendly state/city, diverse local economy, net influx of jobs and population.A great read for detailed analysis on where to invest is Emerging Real Estate Markets by David Lindahl.

@Mark NavarreteA good read on evaluating a market, or searching for the optimum market, is Emerging Real Estate Markets by David Lindahl.

My finances are better than they have ever been, my only debt is student loans, and I have both a short term saving and emergency fund.

this is a commercial/retail/Medical use property, half of the building (3,500sf) is owner occupy as a medical clinic and owners will plan to retire.

The agents that I looked at was Thom Collier of E-merge and Virginia Golan of NextHome Experience.Any idea of other agents/companies I should look at?

The plan is to buy and hold while living in it and potentially renting out the spare room to traveling medical professionals intermittently. 

I graduated from the university here in May of 2019 with hopes of going to medical school after taking a gap year.

We have 3 major medical providers that service a large radius, St.

Some 1.54 million Americans applied for state unemployment insurance in early June (and more than 700,000 sought compensation though an emergency federal program), reflecting a tenth consecutive weekly decline in job losses from the coronavirus, but a still-worrisome number of layoffs, according to the Labor Department.

Say you find a house for 50,000 and it needs 50,000 of rehab ( you know this because a contractor has given you a written proposal to rehab), then we add a 10% emergency Reserve to the 50,000 rehab of $5000 to cover unexpected costs found during rehab time after the loan has closed.