These factors include ports/airports, military bases, colleges, hospitals, big business moving in (Amazon, Boeing etc.)

Pick a vacancy factor that is conservative to analyze your deals.

This is assuming other factors too...some states might change how all of this plays out but I would at least consider the deal first.

Housing is cheap because it factors in the risk, like any efficient market.

Also have to factor in sales costs. 

@Chris TedeschiThere are several factors that go into this decision, but ultimately it should be based on your overall asset protection strategy.

That's when they'll give opinions and ideas not influenced by monetary gain.

Some HMLs/private lenders don't have credit score requirements.This makes sense as your credit score is a good indicator of long-term creditworthiness, but in the short term (like the typical term length of a hard money loan) factors like liquidity are more predictive of timely repayment.Best,Michael

It has always been interesting to me that the REI is not a pure supply-demand space because of the influence of the third parties.

There are a lot of different factors that go into it, like how much time do you have to dedicate to getting your first deal?