Nice summary of tech & it's power! 

Plenty of tech companies are heavily investing in the area and we already have large established universities and medical facilities 

My wife and me work in tech, we were considering house-hacking with 2-3-4-plexes, but risk is too high here and reward is too low, Seattle is not landlord friendly and we like to have flexibility.

G'Day everyone,Just wanted to write a quick post to "set the record straight" on the Toledo market.A few investors recently asked me if the Toledo market was "Booming".I can with full confidence tell you that it isn't and it probably never will...Many "Toledoians" might say that it is but in my opinion that is because they haven't educated themselves on other truly "Booming" markets around the nation.I will say this though, the Toledo market has probably never been better.Downtown is very alive with new hotels, restaurants and bars opening up.ProMedica Hospital is doing wonders for the downtown region along with other areas across Toledo.All of this is fantastic new but let's not confuse it with other "Booming" markets like a Texas or Florida for example.Cranes everywhere, new apartments being built, high population growth, jobs, tech, etc...Toledo and other Midwest cities will just never have the demand/appeal as some other areas across the country.Granted, I really don't know of any other market where you can indeed get a "better bang for your buck".Solid B class properties for the price of a parking spot like in some other higher growth markets lolKeep in mind that 1 or 2 properties won't make you rich so you must have a growth type mindset to do well in the Midwest.Building a large portfolio of 10+ properties will make it stable, safe and will provide a better long term return on investment.Thanks for reading and Happy Investing

( I'm also getting advised to put them in land trusts on top of the LLC's now $$$ to avoid issues with my loan companies & having them in LLC 'sI feel EVERYWHERE you turn you hear never have rentals in your own name  put them in an LLC In retrospect , I am wondering why I would not have been petter off to keep them ALL in my personal name with 1 giant 5 million dollar umbrella policy for liability  ........

I'm guessing after logging died down they had a steep decline but seems to be on the upswing now... low cost of living and good recession-proof jobs due to the Air Force, Sky Lakes Medical Center and Oregon Tech...

I'm a bit more of a fan of San Antonio and think you may be able to capture some value in Austin as the residential growth expands there, tech starts fleeing back to Cali and can get in before a second wave of interest.With that said, I have a lot of properties in Houston.

I focus on Columbus, Ohio, which has seen significant growth, especially with tech giants like Intel, Meta, Amazon, and Google setting up operations, driving up property prices and job opportunities.

Columbus has become a major tech hub in the Midwest with large companies like Intel investing $20 billion, Amazon investing $3.5 billion, Google building 2 new data centers: one in downtown Columbus and the other in right outside of U.S. 33 in Lancaster.

Attaching tech stacks used for airbnbs!