These markets also have a great employment rate with large companies such as Procter and Gamble and The Kroger Company - together employing over 33,000 people.

Be it stocks or real estate.If I want to gamble, I'll go to Vegas and loose quickly on the slots so I can have a cigar and enjoy a cocktail.Much success

Buying in Baltimore , IMHO , is not investing , its gambling , and the odds are not in your favor 

City is home to seven Fortune 500 companies, including Procter & Gamble, Kroger, and Fifth Third Bancorp.

Buying for cashflow IS gambling.

Many people purchase the wrong properties and then can't afford repairs, vacancies and they don't have a clue regarding how to manage properties and don't have a clue regarding what to do when the tenant from hell destroys the property and does not pay rent for 6 to 9 months while you are paying the mortgage and an attorney.If you a gambling woman with huge suitcases full of money then jump right in and take your chances not with real estate, but take your chances trying to find an honest and competent person who will guide you in the right direction like you are their mother.

If you do an auction, you just have to be okay with the gamble that you might be buying a lemon with a ton of problems!

Hence, you're asking for gambling advice from someone on the internet. 

With all the competition from DC, MD, PA, NY, DE they are doomed until they find a new business model not involving gambling. 

Why start "gambling" if you don't need the money?