We currently live in Hot Springs Arkansas and my wife just accepted a position in Jacksonville Florida.

Gym, a few more emails, walk/run to beach, work, Hot tub, return emails, swim, repeat.

The metrics to really gauge are median income per household, available in fill lots, debt levels, and the business life cycle.

I am 59, and my household includes my wife and two adult children.

A hot housing market might allow you to refinance without extensive rehab before the tenant leaves.

And the market is super hot now.

LIke how to get rich in foreclosures right now would be pretty tough to do since they are non existent.. or in a uber hot market like now.. owner financing or the super duper lease option niche these all work in heavy distressed economy cycles but pretty tough today.  

When I invest in bay area, where the median household incomes and average property values are so high, focus shifts from places meets my criterion than crime and quality of neighborhood.

The slow period Q4 2023 was slow but hot compared to years past. 

So you need to be out there finding the next house, finding money, arranging financing, networking, finding the next hot neighborhood, etc...