I am Active Duty Air Force At Seymour Johnson just east of Liberty.

We're seeing deals in south, midwest and east but the west coast is tricky.

How far East or West?

I own all of my investment properties here and work with a lot of out-of-state investors in both the east and west coast that love investing here for the turnkey and BRRRR opportunities that we have here.

Background:My wife and I current live just East of Dallas in a single-family home (past 2 years).

You are correct that this region mostly serves people driving east toward DC for work, so very different from the rest of WV.

@Bruce Woodruff it's not just you at least what I see in east valley I look at house prices around us and they are much higher than when we bought in 2016.   

TONS of SFR listings in the Troost corridor heading up to the river and then curving East along independence Ave.But they present many challenges; vacancies  (due to below C market tenant pool), increased maintenance and repair costs (due to below C market), and increased cap ex due to homes in this particular region being older (many century homes).Then, even if at the end of the year it does well from a financial analysis standpoint, you may struggle to find the necessary and diligent and high performing property mgmt necessary to manage said property…so then if you self manage OOS, you will need a strong ‘boots on the ground’ team.many challenges come with these ‘$ sexy’ properties.

In East TX right now a lot of properties won't have positive cash flow if financed, which means they don't make good rentals.

As for high appreciation, that would be on the east side of Seattle.