You can find cheaper but, you get what you pay for. 

having trouble decide weather to invest in an apartment or a house.apartments are cheaper but will have to pay management fee and the property price will not rise much i am led to believe.house are more expensive and require more work running them however have the potential to rise in value thoughts please?

With economies outside the US slowing, exports getting more expensive in their destination currencies and ever cheaper (in exchange rate) outsourcing costs it’s hard to see how we’re going to generate much wage growth and/or inflation that would spur the Fed to raise rates materially.

Its much cheaper to open an LLC in a different state.

(or in OC county if cheaper) lowes?  

Many cheaper, easier, and more effective ways to borrow!

For example, we invest with my parents in upstate NY, we travel there several times a year and housing is cheaper than in the DC area.  

This is also one reason why I setup my out of state entities in those states rather than register MA ones, those places are MUCH cheaper so since that is where the properties are it makes sense.

I'm assuming get a cheaper place to live?

seems to me to be cheaper areas like g grove, santa ana, and inland OC, but i'm not sure.