I went with Wealth Factory to be more efficiently guided.

Knife maker to put HQ, big factory in LeanderThe article details that the company will be relocating their Headquarters from California to this NorthWest suburb of Austin, TXArticle link below:https://www.bizjournals.com/austin/news/2021/08/25/leander-cangshan-cutlery-manufacturing-facility.html?

He's contributing to global trade, paying factory-line workers the world over.

Another item to factor is when the property becomes vacant in between residents, repairs, insurance costs change act.

Income is from SSI except for dad who makes $6000 a year working as a "D-boner" (I'm guessing deboner) in a local chicken factory plus (mom claims) gets a VA disability but she can't find the paperwork to prove this.

Circling back to give an update on our most recent acquisition to end 2022!  With my partners leading the charge and me tagging along, we closed on the Gastonia Sun Drop bottling warehouse in Gastonia, NC along with a...

Thus we never had the giant boom of building WW2 workforce housing to supply steelmills and factories, and then had all those neighborhoods bust out when all that closed.

The other factor is neighborhood.

But appreciation rate can vary widely from market to market depending on what state is this years flavor and what billionaire is moving some factory to where.  

Unfortunately in a market like San Diego, the driving factor is much less about what makes sense for an investor, and much more about what makes sense for someone trying to get into something in an expensive market.