How do you narrow down your market options?

[Gaelan Z Andrade Booker]

My brother and I are working on our strategy which entails investing in an out-of-state market. Part of my duties are to analyze the markets which is straight forward, collect/compare data. Before I could get started though, I ran into a bigger problem which is: how do I know which cities to start with?

Where we're at now is looking at any cities with major/ renown hospitals, as we're considering housing medical professionals. So that is one approach. Aside from that I'm trying to avoid going about this willy nilly and knowing how to choose a set of markets to begin analyzing? Any tips? Thank you!