.), colleges/universities, lifestyle (skiing, mountain biking, rock climbing), mild weather (rarely ever have to shovel snow!)

I am a 19 year old university student pursuing a degree in marketing and I work full time as a patient care technician at a hospital. 

@Jim GloverI work the Auburn & Monroe markets as well as some others in the North Metro area.

But definitely learn how to analyze a property because while there are subjective factors like I mentioned above, the universal language of real estate investing in math for analyzing properties/investments.

I agree that close to the Trumbull border, sacred heart university and blackrock area good places to start looking. 

Is the universe telling me to WAIT OR is it throwing me a TEST!?

I have been exercising control to purposefully not mention Rent Appreciation in open 2 general public posts to help deflate the ignorance out there by novices who hear such and just assume rental appreciations are universal, misallocate, than get into a reverse situation.

I like areas with some econimic stability (military bases, colleges and universities, regional hospitals),  I don't know the future and every time I make a prediction I am completely wrong, so I will bank on median housing stock in small town usa.

And you try to say that the previous inspector wanted it like that but they don't seem to care and they make you change it again...and this can go on, and on, and on.Is it just me or are we living in some strange universe where plumbing and other codes don't matter, and inspectors can say and do whatever they want with no recourse?

Just east of Lakeland, near Florida Polytechnic University, is SunTrax, the high tech track for testing autonomous vehicles.