You can't afford the first place.

Housing at first glance appears expensive, but with a little analysis you find out that housing trades at only 4.5x incomes here making it pretty affordable measured against how much you make. 

So yes you can make money if the house for sale is affordable and you can make the numbers work.

Start smaller than you can afford, you will need financial reserves.

Those are already some of the most affordable houses in town.

I’ve mentioned this strategy to many of my friends but they all just want to live in a pretty house they like so they go about it the American way of buying a house at market value that they can just barely afford because it’s in a good neighborhood and they want to live in a nice neighborhood.

Hey Logan,The largest inventory and more affordable prices in for smaller apartment buildings will be in Western MA where it was previously manufacturing cities with large housing complexes.

As for the area, any area you can afford and feel safe with a short commute to work is good.

He can no longer afford his apartment, went almost homeless, and couch surfing with friends.

@Jason Mak  Coincidentally, about an hour after my previous post discussing the two new bills that have been proposed in California to extend the tenant eviction protections afforded under AB3088, I got an email from the California Apartment Association (CAA) saying that they now believe the Legislature passing an extension is "inevitable".