There are several factors: Large Student Market:  Winston is home to several universities- Winston-Salem State University, Salem College, University of North Carolina School of the Arts, and Wake Forest University/ Wake Forest University School of Medicine.

If you're thinking in the Reno Tahoe, NV area you can check out this rent map: https://www.addressincome.com/data-center/reno-rent-mapLook at other factors in the neighborhoods, like close to trails, restaurants, college, or a cement plant.

LOL.There’s a WORSE WAY and a BEST WAY to try to obtain items 1-4 aboveBEST WAY: College or Professional Association courses in real estate (real estate license course as a base) and work experience for a REIT or other professional real estate organization and capital saved or equity raised from private parties with a MODERATE amount of debt leverage and or utilizing creative financing with low interest rate debt (may be highly leverage)WORSE WAY; Any guru courses or mentorship’s combine with high interest debt. 

I've chosen to max out retirement and college savings, but not to pay off my house while we continue to grow our investments and business.

It looks like about a 4th year college level textbook on the subject of real estate in general- I would highly recommend it to anyone that wants to get a full understanding of real estate.

This is all steaming from a place, an assumption, that Syndicators and the various syndicated investment's, as a whole, are poorly performing, to whatever degree. 

Many of my clients are investors,  who are finding deals of different degrees of difficulty and affordability. 

College towns can be solid for rentals.

Technically some of the properties will be in other Fulton County cities like College Park or East Point but putting Atlanta will still work for mapping the properties, which is the next step.Once I have the spreadsheet with full addresses I go to www.batchgeo.com and paste three columns (address, city, state) from the excel sheet (including headers) into the box on the BatchGeo home page.

The downtown area has actually improved since my college days.