how to invest in another market
My team and I recently decided to expand to a new market.
Here are the things I look at before deciding to commit to a new market:
- 1. Make sure that the population market within the MSA is increasing (if 1 or 2 zip codes in the submarket has a decreasing population that's not too of much of a concern as long as you learn why the population in that zip code is decreasing
- 2. Make sure the MSA population is at least 400k
- 3. Net migration is positive
- 4. job growth is steady
- 5 wage growth is positive
- 6. median income per month > 3x of monthly median rent
- 7. median rent/median home price should be at least over .5% (it's hard to get 1% in today's market)
- 8. renter percentage > 30%
- 9. easy eviction process (landlord friendly)
- 10. diverse big employers (top employers should be in different industries)
- 11. I also want what cost per unit I should be buying properties to get desired returns (that's why I always reach out to local investors)
- 12. I'll reach out to brokers to find out cap rates
- 13. I'll reach out to property managers and investors to get average rents and make sure the zip codes I'm looking at are the class/grade I'm interested in
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