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Russell's right on: Virginia within an hour of DC has been a strong market for quite a while, and Amazon's HQ2 announcement at the end of 2018 just turned the heat up even higher.There are buy and hold opportunities for sure, not limited to SFH at all.

If you purchase 5 homes you’d want strong cash flow to avoid having 5 mortgages and worry about paying the monthly payment.

I have my investors stay in strong suburban to urban core.

I'm excited and nervous I'm flying to Detroit to look at and strongly considering buying my first oos rental property.

Retail footprints for anchors are decreasing and the uses are changing, however, retail demand is super strong it's just in different sectors than we have seen in the past. 

@Justin C.I would strongly recommend buying a multi family (3 or 4 units) and living in one of the units. 

Depending on how strong your assets are there are loans out there that would use your assets to get a loan approved.

I'm not sure how much you're tied to that city, but I would strongly consider moving to a more affordable market if you can.

@Jake Goldman Indianapolis is a strong cash flow market if you buy in the right areas.