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 was able to do this and totally replaced my medical device income to the point I was able to retire and have complete financial freedom.

The key is to rent to grad students and medical students.  

This is probably the single most common booking site for travel medical professionals.

In a perfect world, your primary would be paid off and the only HELOC on it would be for peronsal emergency issues - job loss, medical, etc.Recommend you find a lender that finances rentals, get a refinance going, then watch mortgage rates for the next dip to lock in a decent rate and close.

I posted a series of comments in this Bigger Pockets feedhttps://www.biggerpockets.com/forums/925/topics/1164202-folsom-could-see-over-500-000-square-feet-of-new-doctor-s-offices-and-medical-clinics

Medical reasons do not enter into its equations.

North, South, East, and West is the best way to detail Scranton.East Scranton is one of my favorites, it houses the Medical College, two Universities, and two large hospitals.West Scranton is starting to be over-run by gangs and drugsNorth Scranton is off the beaten path but can still offer good opportunitiesSouth Scranton was the rough neighborhood for a while but now it is up and coming.

There are a bunch of medical offices around in addition to the military and the tourism so you really can't go wrong.

To attract these young professionals/medical residents/graduate students i'm trying to identify areas.