Two major universities, Albany medical center, and several state buildings.

@Thomas Yourkiewicz - There is a great deal of information on BP about Toledo to help you understand its national appeal vs other cities, price, cash flow, and ease of entry are a few.My biggest lesson learned in Real Estate in general is - whatever your niche, you will do just fine provided you specialize, create an offering that meets a need in the market, and stay the course when you have hurdles.This holds true if you specialize offering housing to professionals who need high-end temporary housing while assigned to long term projects...medical facility rentals with nursing staff provided...and for every aspect of servicing the investing community (hard money, note buying, appraisals, etc) which gets you out of the landlord role altogether.One sure way to fail is to constantly shift your focus and jump between cities, neighborhoods, or investments. 

Hersey area is always good because of the medical school.

I happen to have a good friend thats a VP of finance at a pretty large medical corporation, so I will certainly be employing him when I make my move to investments.Not being able to use a 1040ez basically answers my questions, and means this will be over my head and will need a good accountant come tax season.So basically only 35% of my property and income can be taxed w/ a triplex?

Columbus continues to grow but remains affordable to its residents who also have access to great entertainment, food, medical care, and the outdoors.

Medical Payments: Provides coverage for an injury suffered on the premises.

It is in a great location, close to a major interstate, college, and the medical district. 

Furnishedfinder is an annoyingly good platform for finding folks in this medical travel community, but don't neglect to also post on Airbnb and VRBO if you're up for it. 

Most of the collections are medical which I am sympathetic to.

It has a fairly robust economy, with the exception of high tech and medical jobs, with a large shift in the last decade to being a logistics hub for So Cal due to it's central location (the major HWY arteries to the rest of the county run right through the IE) and has some of the largest concentrations of large warehouses rivaled only by New Jersey, the median income is a little below the Cal average by about $10K and about $5K higher than the national average, but, it has been growing.