Take a look at the graph "National Housing Price Index and Inflation Rate."

@James Wilcox I will be in the Indiana National Guard so I would assume I would qualify for a VA loan.

May be other lenders that do it but your going to have to look hard.The job part you can get around, you would have to do a dscr loan and the rates are much higher being a foreign national and DSCR loan

It can be difficult for you to stand out.Whoever you use, be sure that the list is run through the National Change of Address (NCOA).

Then there's Acadia National Park - not to mention the general scenic nature of the coastline. 

I go to a monthly REIA (which is fabulous) and also am part of a national mastermind (which I love too).

Regional to national other use type tenants it's likely a tear down if you can't retrofit and adapt it cheaply.

I wouldn't do it.2) Traditional Agent -- 5.4% was the national average according to a 2012 article by the Economist, with 5-6% widely considered the industry "standard", but it varies.

Sometimes he mentions the larger national banks don’t try as hard to really qualify someone because they have a unique income source (investors) or that bank doesn’t do loans under a certain house value (maybe the neighborhood is lower value and a local community credit union might).

It took some searching, but I was able to find a national bank to do it - it was First Citizens.