Does anyone here have an opinion on puchasing a house in Meridian vs renting one? How easy is it to maintain renters in that town etc? Im going to be living with one or two other roomates and was contemplating a purchase and then renting after I leave.
Probably not too bad, although you have to ask yourself a few questions:
What if SNAs there are forced to occupy base housing (a la Whiting). Maybe Meridian doesn't have base housing, who knows.
What about if meridian gets BRACed and is gone? How likely would you be to rent it out to non-Navy folks?
Not gonna get braced? That's ridiculous? I'm sure folks in Beeville though that base would last forever too...
My personal belief is that I'm not going to buy a house in a place where I couldn't rent it if it wasn't for the navy.... just me.