Role in Real Estate: Crucial for new real estate agents, brokerages, or developers entering a market.

The Carle Clinic is one of the only level 1 trauma center hospitals in the state outside of Chicago metro, the university is a great furnished tenant source, and Champaign county is 1 of the only counties in IL that is growing in population. 

If the owner lives in town, you could even go knock on their door, I find this to be extremely successful when you are going after foreclosed properties.As to your 1st post, you might want to look at city data for growing markets, It looks like Rochester lost population last year, vs if you look at sunbelt cities like, Houston, DFW, Austin, Miami, Orlando, Tampa, these cities saw at a minimum 1% population increase.

The population growth, tech company migration from CA, and infrastructure investments make for a solid long term market. 

Factors like population growth, job market, rental demand, price-to-rent ratio, and local economy are crucial.

I understand that I’m starting from the bottom, but my end goal is to be a successful developer and I plan on starting out wholesaling to build capital.

Most of these bad situations are due to poor due diligence and also not understanding project development and finance efforts. 

I have a small real estate development/construction/investment company with four partners.

Would also love to end in development because I truly enjoyed the flipping process. 

It seems like the general trend of population growth is northern Dallas.