Although not a player in making comments yet, many posts, blogs, and podcasts have helped accelerated my growth.

If your goal is buy and hold, key indicators I value are the ratio of average purchase price to average rent, low vacancy, and commercial growth in the area.

I figure once I get 2-3, I can take a HELOC or something of the same substance to continue my portfolio growth.

That indicates that rent growth is probably going to disappear. 

DC however did not start it's path of growth until the mid 20th century, and had plenty of available land, so it was able to grow with suburban sprawl as opposed to other cities with less land to spread out onto.

There are a lot of people that see value here.Some people may not be impressed when they consider investing here, but if they take a deeper look at the local economy and growth that we have, it makes our market look great.

This will be a great opportunity to assist each other in our growth.

I love the idea that you're targeting these institutions as I truly believe these places (Hopkins Medical Facility, Universities, etc) will be the difference in long term growth here in Baltimore.

You will have decades for growth or correcting mistakes.

I know that's not the Rich Dad Poor Dad school of thought, but often (especially in stable flat growth markets - many today in 2018) buying a residence is not often any kind of investment (just a big liability).