The job market is steadily growing year after year, the cost of living is far more reasonable than the likes of a Chicago or Manhattan, and because of Columbus' central location, travelling to those major cities is quite easy.

I am a new investor and I was fortunate enough to buy my first property (a trailer) from my mother. 

The sellers also have 100 acres of land to sell separately and the buyer was taking 12 extra acres.  6 months later, the deal still had not closed and the buyer was attempting to get stipulations placed on the rest of the acreage the sellers owned (no industrial, no trailers etc). 

@Jake KainI live near downtown Phoenix but I'm often traveling to Mesa, Chandler and Tempe for school stuff

It's only a stepping stone to break free.While you are slaving, eat ramen, roommate up or live in trailer, avoid Starbucks and tuck every dollar you can squeeze out into a bank account. need 20% down and money for materials. so for 80K home (trashed), you will want 35K banked to get started, just a rough idea.Then, get pre-approved.

Every day it's "she was busy", "she was traveling", "she'll try to sign tonight", etc. 

As the DOW falls again today (Futures at 26,482), with Chinese unable to  travel to the US, do you think the annual $30 Billion in capital from Chinese investors will continue?

They are travelling workers, and don't know how long the job will last or if there will be another job here after they finish the current one.  

I'm not in the DFW area but I travel there every once and awhile and have searched for meet ups in the past.

We are looking to buy few houses to do room rentals/ corporate rentals/ travel nurse/ other ways.Million thanks in advance!