And never ignore medical bills :)

This is due to the anticipated demand from the Medical Mart and Convention Center, which just came online this year.- Cleveland Clinic, with its $3 billion endowment and its top-in-the-world facilities, is in Cleveland (surprise!)

He sounds like he would not make a good tenant (he's banking on getting a job in the area but doesn't have it yet) but he brought up an issue we hadn't considered:  outstanding medical debt.  

It's when you are off of work for a certain period of time for family related medical reasons.

I have seen many of those where the medical bills were over $100,000 not counting loss of earnings claims. 

I started with single family then went to multifamily then went to commercial office/retail/medical.

December of 2013 they don't pay...Christmas medical bills for mom (blah blah blah) January they don't pay...

Pittsburgh is kind of under the radar and a lot of people think it's still some rust belt city that hasn't recovered from the steel industry leaving , but they are very diversified now with medical , education and other industries these days , their unemployment rate was also pretty low during the recession .

Especially when you look at balancing the risks such as new NY Renter Laws, high taxes, and lack of business growth.I think there is upside with the new hospital opening up soon, Marist adding a medical teaching program, easy access to metro north, favorable pro-growth government, etc..I've run some #'s for Poughkeepsie and nothing seemed to cash-flow enough for the risk, however, I've not dug deep into off-market deals, which is where you are going to have to look.I've pretty much given you a non-answer...

Traveling nurses and other professionals search this area often with the considerable amount of hospitals, medical facilities and corporations in the surrounding cities.