If your goal is dependable income properties that will get you off and stay off the daily worker treadmill, I recommend the following criteria.Metro area population size greater than 1M.

My saving habits are lacking to save the least, and i am running on the "treadmill" of big corporation business where i'm trading time for money.

We will run a high touch campaign (18 touches) over 12 months with the ambition of being the seller's first call when they do decide to sell.Since we are long term buy/hold of larger multifamily properties, we can afford to be targeted, patient and play the timing game with sellers who are on average older and have held for a long time already.We are not creating a marketing machine to churn out wholesale flip deals; we aren't on that treadmill.