. :) You will be limited geographically to some subset of the census tracts in your area, but amazing things can happen with it. 95% LTV.

buy land get it up zoned and approved for HBU and flip timber tracts that you can instantly log and resell we made millions doing this on OPM .. and it viable in the Carolinas etc.since its a full time gig you need to look at more robust ways to create income than as you already understand drip income is not going to get your were you need to be in a short amount of time.. rentals is a very LONG game. so you need to be looking at crap properties that can be turned around and resold if you can do them in 13 months you get cap gains.. and or rent them for a year or two and you can roll up for a 1031 and keep velocity going that way.. but again I would not be so keen on just giving up 300k a year  many of the landlords on this site can get to that 5 to 10k a month and that's all they need to live on.. someone used to larger income that usually wont cut it.. so scale has to be huge to replace 25k a month..

But you can all pull Census.gov data by census tract in order to determine the good and bad areas.

Locations considered a low income census tract - have no income restrictions (This is what they are doing away with July 28th)On 2-4 units - can use rental income from other units to assist in qualifying for the property.

The days of the 1950's where you bought large tracts of land in AZ or FL and subdivided it and start marketing it in 6 months are over........Way over!! 

Detached Garage with Second Airbnb UnitThere is a small tract of land on our side yard that really makes more sense to be in our lot.

Does anyone know of where I can get hold of current and historical data, preferably on a census tract level, of demographics and employment trends?

Imagine a site where you can show population trends, job growth, age of workforce, etc. on a singular map and narrow down to census tracts that you want to invest in.

The volatility numbers don't factor into the score, but they're there so you can see them.I also included other metrics of importance (though, again, they're not a part of the score): educational attainment, industry breakdown, and building size makeup.Finally, I calculated the US and MSA averages of every metric and gave each data point a percentile -- so it's pretty easy to digest everything once you've found your bearings.

Well, technically it didn't go away, the homebuyer just can't earn more than 80% of census tract median income.