My background is in research specific to mental and medical health but can help in residential demographics.

It is situated right by the UMD Medical system and many young families or graduate students live in the area - making for great tenants. 

There are plenty of students and medical professionals here who will continue to need a room to live in (and have the money to pay for it regardless of the broader economy).Best of luck!

My female significant other is proficient in Spanish and was helping me through this whole process but now she's too busy taking care of the kids and started medical school.....

I had rentals, but I found I cannot charge medical insurance to my rental business via the schedule E.

Recently, Pittsburgh has had new industries come in, including a lot of medical and tech companies.

Augusta is a good market for MTR due to the low price point and the fact that they have a medical center (multiple hospitals in the same area).

Or is it a medical debt from a few years ago when their child got sick with cancer that they just haven't been able to keep up with and therefore has dragged down their credit?

Retirement, help pay for medical expenses? 

Commercial I see as much more specialized these days....agents/brokers on buy side and sell side and more seem to work exclusively more on one side than the other....I can think of 20-25 specialty niches on commercial side....hotels, industrial, multifamily, office, medical office, strip centers, NNN, warehouses, and on and on.