@Katie Miller building my first residential assisted living facility!

I know that in Florida when our past governor closed a lot of mental health facilities years ago and a lot of these people were put out in the street and now they are lucky enough to find housing through these disability stipends.

I already have multiple candidates lined up and vetted who would like to live in one of my properties, and the property is usually spoken for well before it is finished.Certain professions, I've found, produce MUCH more reliable tenants than others, and in my town, licensed practical nurses and facility-based nursing assistants who have been employed with the same near-monopoly health care provider in our area for five years or more are practically bulletproof.

STRs generally earn a higher return than LTRs, if done properly, so you're on the right track.First of all, hopefully your properties are in a high-demand year-round tourism spot (preferably in the southern half of the US which is where STR works best) & hopefully it's legal there too - check the regs.Also, STRs require a LOT more effort on the management front than LTRs.

Guys from Belarus, Ukraine, El Salvador, Ireland, Mexico etc.Materials in pickup trucks, igloo coolers for lunch, Porta potty for facilities.

If people want to live in big states with flat lands and no tourism, limited career options and extreme weather, more power to them.

Intel is a great example, who is building the largest chip manufacturing plant in the US right here, and it will be a $20 billion dollar investment that brings a few new thousand jobs.https://www.dispatch.com/story/business/2022/01/21/intel-ohio-building-computer-chip-factories-licking-county-jersey-township/9173472002/ Another example of economic growth is the upcoming Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center Inpatient Hospital which is a 1.9million square foot hospital that will bring over 800 new beds and a thousand new jobs. https://abc6onyourside.com/news/local/new-osu-hospital-expected-to-transform-health-careHere are a few more recent investments https://www.10tv.com/article/money/business/hydrogen-power-company-hyperion-bringing-700-jobs-to-columbus/530-25907aab-5517-4661-a9f3-d2ed2d5be6b0 https://news.wosu.org/news/2022-02-08/rumpke-to-build-50-million-recycling-facility-in-columbus Check out The Complete Guide to the Columbus, Ohio Real Estate Market which goes through the Columbus, Ohio market in depth and will give you a better scope of where the highest levels of growth are taking place and where to look to invest.

I want to be able to travel, inbed myself in some foreign cultures... a deeper look than tourism. 

If I remember right their employment base in Texas is a little higher now than in New York.I do have hopes that tourism will come back. 

I've already looked at some commercial buildings and storage facilities and there's a lot of potential there.