In my opinion the suburbs tend to have the better long term value even if Cashflow numbers aren't quite as good.  

Older doctor practices tend to shun it because they do not want to deal with all the red tape.

The local banks push this crap because current CD payouts and savings is about 1% annually unless you are locking a ton of money for five years to get 1.75% which is nuts.

Looking for a reason in some hope to solve that reason tends to be vision of many new folks.

And because banks are more rigid in their lending decisions, underwriting standards, and overall loan terms, this lack of flexibility is another key factor that steers sophisticated real estate investors in the direction of private money loans.Although private capital tends to carry a higher cost factor over bank financing, many investors are more concerned with completing an acquisition successfully, particularly when a lot of due diligence and earnest money is at stake!

And, even the more "cache" companies are not always what they're made out to be (but they do tend to pay well).In many STEM fields, If you aren't truly passionate about the subject, it will be difficult to put in the amount of time and energy that it takes to become skilled enough to compete on the job market with the people who are that passionate.

The guru's will like to tell you otherwise, but for the most part the kind of people I see that get started investing in real estate and have success tend to be people that either have a career established or they have a house with some equity.

The only thing this nut job has is a lease, but  there is an exchange for lodging that I can only hope was clearly spelled out.

The result is people with money who tend to be "picky" about cleanliness and therefor have clean well trained dogs.

"Original" would tend to mean origination which there is only one Mortgagee, the lender.