This area is going to see tremendous growth as the city of Bryan continues to expand on its Midtown plans.

In residential (1-4 unit), you are hamstrung by what your neighbors property sold for down the street.  

Akron, while not a 24 hour city, is still a generally stable, established city.  

Quote from @Jemini Leckie: Hello, I am trying to understand the Orem, city code to determine if I am allowed to rent my basement ADU that I currently live in two a couple cousins and their friend.

What I'm trying to say is that going up to 1.5-2 hours outside of even the biggest cities, there are pockets of affordable towns/cities with at least positive cash flow (although its never been harder to find than right now, I've been waiting for 3 years for the market to make sense before buying again). 

I started getting into some Facebook groups couple of days ago, I'll definitely look into RE events, I know there are few that takes place in the city most of the weekends 

It’s on a quieter street, low income area.

I've had a couple OOS investors ask about ADU potential in our market... not sure what hurdles there might be with the city (permitting, zoning, or otherwise).

I am looking at a condo that is located across the street from a Sonesta Suites extended stay hotel.

If you need some connections, I run the most active group of small landlords in the city and have a network of connections that you could potentially leverage.