I look forward to continuing to learn from the BiggerPockets community as I navigate my real estate investing journey.I’ve had some success on the eastern shore of Maryland, though even that market has started to frankly become expensive, there are still pockets of potential growth both rent & appreciation, thoigh it’s becoming harder to find, also there is a massive rental shortage out there, a county I just put a property contract on, literally has 3 properties for rent right now, but it does make rental comps quite difficult, outside of that I’ve started looking a little more into western Md and some southern pa markets but still trying to get a feel for them, overall I think in this market places that are affordableish and have some draw will do well with the continued wfh + affordability crisis but keep in mind while I think the eastern shore is actually fairly safe market for the most part a lot of rural areas definitely have boom bust potential and in theory more risk than dc metro, though the low price points do by definition tend to mitigate some of those risks. 

Literally every week I get multiple inquiries on the size of our pool as the last time they made the mistake of booking a place with a such a small pool. 

FYI if you actually read through just this thread you'd see I literally laid out the math on a real world property and comparison of the two.

Boosting consumer spending is literally rowing in the opposite direction.

A new business owner can spend a fortune on a custom website before their product, audience and goals are even flushed out.

Literally got into RE while at a family BBQ about 15 years ago.

I assume you’re checking to make sure they literally still live there.  

That literally makes no sense.

The fundamental is that the asset (real estate) does literally NOTHING without active operational inputs on a consistent, regularized basis. 

Quote from @Quincy Jones: I am also looking in Milwaukee, had a real estate agent literally give me a drawn out map of the areas color coded to show the different others that are the best to the worst, I’d start looking in areas that are starting to or in the process of being gentrified.