My group is looking to invest heavily in the area.

Hey there, this deal doesnt make much financial sense to me, im not an appreciation type of guy and i dont know the exact play here, but a cashflow of 183.16 for an initial investment of 27.5k money down means you would need 12.5 years to recoup your initial investment, the market there is heavily saturated and wont provide you much cash flow, if you are already factoring in property management, then you might want to look further away for better cash flow, im in the process of purchasing a 4plex that will cash flow me 1,500 mnthly after all expenses and accounting for vacancy on a 175k loan

At least not accurately.Supply/demand for GCs in the Bay Area heavily favors the GCs.

From what I know the El Paso economy has not been doing well and is heavily resided by the military. 

Good Morning, I have been listening to several podcasts and reading about real estate investing heavily the last few weeks trying to find the answer to a simple question. 

This should be heavily affected by what your goals with real estate investing are, what types of strategies you are hoping to deploy to reach those goals, what assets you are looking at, and from what position you are starting your real estate investing path! 

I guess they're heavily invested in FB and having lots of 'friends' or 'colleagues' makes them feel good. 

You can't get great financing on it and are stuck with the tenant for a year even if someone better comes along.Single tenant length of lease term HEAVILY affects value and cap rate exit on sale among rental increase and other items.

You can see a Texas Tribune article about the recent ruling.A bill to block cities from heavily regulating short-term rentals made it through the Texas Senate during the last legislative session, but it died in committee in the Texas House. 

I rely on the statistics data heavily to understand the market trend and make actions.