Whenever we come to visit, we try to get there really late, or really early to miss the stopped traffic. 

Needs to get a lot of traffic first, but I am excited about the opportunity to list properties on a another platform other than Craigslist.

Should I go the slow route and do the upstate NY/Jersey things with less traffic for a while until I'm ready for the bigger stuff?

I own alot of gas stations, I have one where the tenant pays me $12,300/mo in rent and I have it listed for $2.75M and thats double the rent you have and in a high traffic area of 50,000 CPD.

Just drive to a high-traffic intersection and count the number of these hastily made plastic signs.The "BSI" matters because it is direct evidence of under-capitalized amateurs trying to get into the game.

Tough with a job and two munchkins, traffic, Yada Yada .....

Also RE offices do not have much traffic.

It seems lately there has been much more traffic for investing in Cleveland.

I have flipped some properties in the DFW area here in Texas, and generally received  good traffic which resulted in offers in less than 30 days.

Lower entry cost (buying only one building while getting the advantage of the traffic in the commercial area), more stable tenants (physicians and health-care corporations tend to want to stay where their patients are, and I found that banks are VERY favorable to dentists/orthodontists since they are a heavily cash flowing business - and subsequently very favorable to the landlord with a tenant lease to one.