I would like your interest drive your focus.

Zoom would be sufficient, less time (driving time) and more productive for both of you.

@Theresa Harris No criminal history recently accept for a driving matter.  

I like them both, in general, but the best way to find a town to invest in outside of where you live if it's not affordable and if you don't want to be withing driving distance easily (recommended) is to make two lists:1. every town you have ever lived in or visited for more than a month2. every town your closest friends and family live (the ones you like)Then you take those two lists and see where they overlap with the data or lists you are using.

They ask open ended questions that spur thoughts for the OP which drive them to the right answer. 

It still looks like a zombie apocalypse when you drive up Kensington Ave.

Goal is to create long sustaining growth and cash flow that I could eventually sell or use to eventually secure a retirement home and place of my choice! 

We've had owner clients tell us we should be driving by their vacant property several times each day - for free. 

And scarcity will always drive prices faster and higher than ubiquity.

Strong demand and limited inventory are driving prices up.