Simply stated, I am young professional seeking to maximize my income through real estate investing. As I am new to much of this (REI), I am still in the "acquiring knowledge/education" phase; and hope to utilize the w...

Dani,How do you calculate the Vacancy rate for a region? 

Now I have been apart of nearly two dozen flips and have viewed well over a hundred homes in the Midwest region I am in but I have never seen 2x4 floor joists(except in a non inspected addition).

Foremost Insurance is fairly predominant in the Midwest region.

@Troy Fisher, @Kevin Carbon, and @Tiffany Plovie collectively run the three biggest gatherings in the Puget Sound region.

I only purchase properties in the Charlotte/ Concord/Kannapolis area so it may also be just a regional thing and other areas may be inundated with great properties and I may need to expand my area.

Hello everyone. My name is Justin and I am glad to become a new member of BiggerPockets. I am looking foward to a prosperous future. 

regional accounting firm.

My point was to not simply write off the entire region because nothing is available for under $100k. 

@Copeland DuhonThere are a lot of posts on this subject, but I'll take a crack at a high level:Macro environment: rule of law, diversity of regional economy, positioning of regional economy, etcSupply and demand equation for properties, both on the sale transaction side, and on the rent side.