Long story short, I'm drawn to a few of the MSAs in North Carolina for a number of reasons: population growth, job growth, climate, taxes, lower acquisition costs, and I'm a Jersey boy so I like the East Coast. 

I know that the architect is not interested in providing any more details of what they have in mind without knowing that they will be selected for the job.

Looks like USAA going to add 2,000 more jobs and many other adding jobs.   

@Mike Conklin Ok I see what you were asking - others on here could share what their lease requires but I'd say like most insurance things there is no one size fits all option (which thankfully keeps me in my day job) From my experience the tenants that don't see the value of renters insurance are going to whine about having to buy it anyway so you might as well set it at a level you are comfortable with.

I will just be starting a new job and wouldn't have "work history" to back up to get a loan. 

My 9 to 5 job is sales and I have grown increasingly frustrated with the prospect that I am making millions of dollars for somebody else when I could be putting the same effort into my own business thus,  have recently decided to go all in with real estate investing.I have a decent understanding of the process but I am stuck in the analysis phase of how to generate leads for a few hundred to a thousand dollars. 

I’m strongly considering quitting my job of 20yrs and doing this full time as I am very pleased with the results and how this first flip went.

My goal is to quite the JOB and be doing RE investing full-time within the next 5 years. 

Put some ownership on your kids, they can work a job during school to help pay for a majority of the remaining costs and take student loans out for the rest if they still need more. 

Class of neighborhood, population growth or decline locally, job growth or decline locally, amount of new construction, percentage if home ownership but having watched rents since the late 80s on my parents houses and having my own properties for a decade or so I haven't ever seen significant declines in rent I have seen rent stagnation and rent growth but never any real drops out side of a couple areas where neighborhoods declined greatly.