How do you determine if a neighborhood/city is good to purchase a rental property?

[Alberto Leon]

Hello Everyone,

I am fairly new to this forum and to real estate investing. I would like to purchase my first rental property and I am currently researching neighborhoods/cities in Florida. However I wanted to ask... What type of information do you look for when selecting a city and neighborhood to invest in? Also where can that information be found? Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

[Barbara G.]

Harlem had a lot going for it

It was in the greatest city

It had some really interesting Brownstones and there was no where else to go in the city but uptown.  New York is not your average city.