Expansion means more employees and higher wages.

It's a factor of wages and interest rates as well. 

I’m maxing out TSP while I make high wages now.

The other 8 properties I own are all about cash-flow and as a good W-2 income earner I thought I could risk this as part of my portfolio, but I think from now on I will stick to the fundamentals - single-family homes in B areas that cash flow well.

What has job and wage growth been, what are they forecasted to be?

The eyeball test alone should tell you that when you jam over 1,000 jobs into a little rental town like that then pay those workers wages that are in line with them being renters of the housing stock in that area the demand is gonna go up there as opposed to other areas. 

Meadows is a high income earner, who found a passive way to invest - whether it's through turn key, fund investing, crowdfunding options, etc.

Recently, Cedar Point, an amusement park, bumped its seasonal wages to $20/hour (Ohio min.

I've decided to purchase near military bases in an area that has good wages/price/rent ratio.

There are some businesses that have come in, but nothing that brings in high wages or even that many number of jobs.