I've begun looking at properties in Central and Southern VA, Maryland and Southern PA but I realize I need to decide on a specific area.

Someone showed me new SFR in Central California and willing to invest, but need guidance if it is worth buying new home 310000$ with rent estimates to 1700 to 2000 per month.

The key is a central location and of course, attractive to guests.Fluency helps however, many realtors still refuse to work with foreigners so choices can be limited to just those realtors that will (some in Tokyo, Niseko near the ski areas, US Army/Navy bases.)

Right now the demand is primarily in the more central areas.  

The next European Central Bank meeting also will take place on Thursday (12/10).Calendar:Wednesday, 12/09: JOLTSThursday, 12/10: CPIThursday, 12/10: ECB MeetingWeekly Changes:10-year Treasury: Rose 0.10 pointsDow Jones: Rose 300 pointsNASDAQ: Rose 200 points

From the rough outline that I have been provided, it appears that a condo complex will be ineligible if any of the following apply:- Is transient in nature, offering hotel type services (including those offered by the HOA or management company) such as registration services, rentals on a daily or short-term basis, daily cleaning, central key systems, etc.- Is professionally managed by a hotel or resort management company that also facilitates short term rentals for unit owners- Has obtained a hotel or resort rating for its hotel, motel, or resort operations through hotel rating providers including, but not limited to, travel agencies, hotel booking websites, and internet search engines.- Projects or HOAs that are licensed, or have a designated licensed agent, have a permit to operate, or are registered, as a type of transient housing for the rental of non-HOA owned units.- The HOA receives revenue from, or pays expenses for, hotel type services including a registration desk/rental registration desk, or an onsite rental operator's desk, or a rental website/hosting platformI would imagine, just like in Destin, FL, that there are plenty of cities across the country where there are front desks and management companies running a large majority of the STRs in their complex. 

From the rough outline that I have been provided, it appears that a condo complex will be ineligible if any of the following apply:- Is transient in nature, offering hotel type services (including those offered by the HOA or management company) such as registration services, rentals on a daily or short-term basis, daily cleaning, central key systems, etc.- Is professionally managed by a hotel or resort management company that also facilitates short term rentals for unit owners- Has obtained a hotel or resort rating for its hotel, motel, or resort operations through hotel rating providers including, but not limited to, travel agencies, hotel booking websites, and internet search engines.- Projects or HOAs that are licensed, or have a designated licensed agent, have a permit to operate, or are registered, as a type of transient housing for the rental of non-HOA owned units.- The HOA receives revenue from, or pays expenses for, hotel type services including a registration desk/rental registration desk, or an onsite rental operator's desk, or a rental website/hosting platformI would imagine, just like in Destin, FL, that there are plenty of cities across the country where there are front desks and management companies running a large majority of the STRs in their complex. 

We will be investing in both the bay area and the central valley.

Capital Group — which manages about $1.4tn — has warned that negative interest rates were distorting financial markets and economies, and might lead to “potentially dangerous consequences”.Jeffrey Gundlach, the head of Los Angeles-based bond house DoubleLine, recently told a Swiss newspaper that negative interest rates “are the stupidest idea I have ever experienced”, and warned that “the next major event [for markets] will be the moment when central banks in Japan and in Europe give up and cancel the experiment”.Larry Fink, the head of BlackRock, warned in his latest letter to investors that while low borrowing costs were a boon to many companies and countries, they come at a heavy cost to savers.

You can lower the land costs by going further out toward the growth boundary, and you do see some development in the say Class B, 100Kish profile in select corridors out farther (Chicago is a hub and spoke type market).