Jenny,Great question as there is indeed a lot of focus placed predominantly on cash flow that makes the returns associated with out of state appear to be the way to go.However, real estate returns are obtained from 4 areas: cash flow, appreciation, tax benefits & equity build up through amortization. 

I love the power of real estate and can't wait to gain more and more experience.Thanks again BP.  

Not my cup of tea, but Boston has a lot of great things going for it that in the long run I think you could make it work.If by multi-family though you mean a 5+ building that you're presumably going to look for in the Midwest or South...it's in its own bubble as a disturbingly large number of people who made bank in the last 10 years of the up market are shifting their focus to a larger scale asset and are purchasing these distressed properties which is driving cap rates down because people need a place just to park their cash. 

That should focus my number crunching practice.

My issue is that the outlet that the AC unit plugs into is a 220v and the only AC units I could find that still ran on 220v were unnecessarily powerful (and expensive) for the units. 

I am worried about inflation, the last couple of years I've just parked it in my savings account, which is obviously just losing buying power year after year due to inflation.

My focus would mostly be focused on people who want out of there current situation and are possible looking to scale down to a more affordable option.

They could argue his earning power over the rest of his life would have been in the 10s of millions.

A BIG focus for this year is to work hard to add more value to our Pro Memberships.

The only thing I would add is if you are starting from zero you probably need to focus on finding good partners or team members to help you close the gap.