Just to give you an idea, my housing allowance for here in Dallas right now is around $1.2k/week, so around $4800/month which is way more than needed to find decent housing here and you get to pocket the difference tax free.What I would recommend is furnishing a house, rent by the room, and market it over different travel nurse sites, Air BNB, etc...

We have 3 properties in Dallas which have come to a point that the cash flow is minimal due to huge increase in property taxes and insurance premiums. 

Thanks Dallas!

., Atlanta, San Antonio, Dallas, Houston etc

Especially if you have contacts there, it might be even better for you.In general, I'd say the good markets to look at would be:Atlanta, Indianapolis, Dallas, Houston, Philadelphia (the latter 3 being my favorite right now)I personally don't like the Rust Belt as much because I see less growth happening there, but there are trade-offs in every market.

@Ezra LambsdorffYou might look into the Dallas, Texas market it is really hot now and the banks are starting to release a few REOs.Joe Gore

They are based out of Dallas, TX and we live in Portland, OR. 

Dallas, TX has a vast amount of GIS data and I have tried multiple times to try to import into ESRI and play around with it without much luck.It's especially helpful because it will do 2015-2016 appraisal values and you can create new columns to look at the % change between year over year values. 

The head of one of the local REIAs in Dallas/Fort Worth, a local multi-family investing expert, and the head of a turnkey investment company based in CA but focusing on Dallas are three examples that come to mind. 

I expect to see some markets, like Phoenix, Tampa, Austin, Dallas, etc drop by 30-40% and others that have had less of a run up and cap rate compression to drop 15-25%.