Gene hacker I will be there I was looking for a group to connect with.

Thanks,Gene

Be a dominate person that area.  

One of the positive side effects of having a banking system dominated by 5 players with coast to coast coverage of Canada is that we have had universal, simple and affordable electronic payment methods for 20years ... tenants have had the ability to pay rent via e-mail for over a decade.While we still accept post-dated cheques and cash payments for rent, we have begun to charge extra for those methods of payment (because the bank charges us extra to process them).  

I'd rather dominate a specific niche instead.All the best,Al

Actual I just was in a seminar last night in the topic with Gene Guarino the Guru on assisted living 

My home country market is tiny compared with the USA so it isn;t a fair comparison but we have one site, similar to Ebay, that completely dominates the RE listings.This happened primarily because the RE sites are alls o busy protecting themselves in stead of making things easy for the buyers and sellers that the door was wide open for a good site which is what happened.America is so much bigger that you need more than one site but you always want as many listings as possible in any city on the same site.

I wrote this blog post that may help you as a birddog: http://www.biggerpockets.com/renewsblog/2014/04/23/acquisition-domination/Let me know what you think!

"It's a Whole New Business" by Gene Trowbridge is next.

Calculate the population change for different age ranges using the population age data for the most current year and the five previous yearsThe increase or decrease of the proportion of people in specific age ranges will dictate the property types that will be in the most demand.Job DiversityCensus.gov under the “Selected Economic Characteristics” tableDetermine whether a specific industry is responsible for a large percentage of jobs or not.Best Case:A market with outstanding job diversity will have no single industry that employs more than 25% of the employed population20% is e even betterDecent Case:If one single industry does employ more than 25% of the employed population, it’s one you trust the future of.This is determined by:Looking at the top employers or businesses and your research (talking to locals, reading local articles)Top Employers and BusinessesFind this information by Googling “CITY NAME + TOP EMPLOYERS)Determine the top 10 employers in the marketIf a certain industry is dominant in a market, analyzing the top employers and businesses allows you to determine whether the majority of those jobs are provided by one or two companies, or whether the risk is spread across multiple companies.This will allow you to track any developments within that company (are they creating a new facility, or cutting jobs?)