Yeah finding the slight pattern will help with the efficacy of the effort instead of just spraying offers.

I'm currently in a holding pattern on buying properties in Houston, and just trying to see where the market goes.

I've been looking for my next deal in the bay area, and while there have been some that might meet the 1% rule at best, I can't get my mind off one thing...the weather patterns in the State. 

Once you start getting into the double digits of rentals, get into a pattern of how you like your places to be. 

The closed auto plants were also often abandoned in a period before strong environmental regulation, causing the sites to become so-called "brownfields," unattractive to potential replacement businesses because of the pollution hang-over from decades of industrial production.[12] The pattern of the deteriorating city by the mid-1960s was visibly associated with the largely departed auto industry.

One approach is to purchase a low income in the Dalles, a higher end to use for vacation rentals marketed to tourists in the area, and something in an appreciating area like Portland, and continue with that pattern to get a mixed portfolio.

It makes the base harder to extract from my historical patterns.

Things can sometimes get a little wonky within the same middle / high school zone with different feeder elementary schools.I've see this pattern of elementary school boundaries GREATLY affecting home values in Orange County, CA, Houston, TX area, and the southern suburbs of Atlanta, GA.Great schools = great real estate potential, seems to make sense, but I would like the counter examples that have ACTUALLY happened, and not just hypothetical.

Being on the other side of an interstate or even a different cross roads section with different traffic patterns and counts can dramatically change things.The tenant might be trying to pressure you to take less rent so they pick up your better location over the one they are looking at down the street.

We let the water run to follow the traveling pattern as we felt suspicious of all walls being compromised.