I was going to simply get the kitchen cabinets from Ikea since that high-gloss white seems to be something they do well, but anyone have a recommendation as to another place that might have mid-grade, reasonably priced, high gloss white kitchen cabs?   

You can get $600-$700 (Sometimes $800 on the streets where the college kids want to live) per bedroom in Burlington for pretty small rooms and low grade finishes.

Look at an amortization scale. 

Compare the verses you know to what they are in the target language.This post http://askakorean.blogspot.com/2010/01/koreans-eng... is by a Korean guy who moved to California when he was in 10th grade (about 15 years old), and wanted to improve his English skills beyond what he had learned in public school in Korea. 

“Access to housing—particularly affordable housing—is becoming more and more limited, and that’s going to be a real problem for our region” he continued, “we have major corporations and grand-scale economic investments taking place, but fewer and fewer options in terms of housing for the people who are going to take those jobs.

Many BP members have used this to help them choose which neighborhoods they want to invest in.The Ultimate Guide to Grading Cleveland Neighborhoods

I think any place I'm going to buy and hold for long term, if there's no large scale technology jobs it's a dying city and I'm rolling the dice.  

Will likely try to hold for 2-3 years while the value appreciates back up and save the cash flow, ideally taking the sales proceeds to scale up.Are there any other investors here in the Salem, MA area?

But it is on a much smaller scale than Youngstown.

C, maybe even a D grade.