There are up and coming areas with high demand, low vacancy and momentum, like Midtown, Downtown, Corktown, Woodbridge and others but your return will be very different from that available in stable or semi-stable residential neighborhoods, or in war zones.

I know this is a pretty old thread, but wanted to see how much momentum management software has picked up for those investors managing 1-10 props.

I’m building off the momentum from that workshop to start networking with like-minded individuals and build my real estate investing team.

There is no way to quantify the value and momentum created by purchasing your first deal.  

On the flipside, BRRR makes sense depending on what your goals are, which obviously can create lots of momentum for acquiring more properties at an accelerated rate, I mean who doesn't want to utilize economies of scale and have 20 properties within 5 years, you just have to be able to position yourself correctly to mitigate those risks, however, if you do what I do and grow slow you tend to feel safer in taking a more conservative position.

Let's keep building momentum in that area.

Here is the latest from Marcus and Millichap (multi family) for 2017.National Multifamily Index (NMI) Several markets with favorable supply-and-demand balances and momentum in hiring made large moves to ascend to the top spots in the 2017 National Multifamily Index (NMI).Los Angeles advanced 11 places in the Index from one year ago to take the highest position in 2017 behind a forecast for further tightening in vacancy and minimal supply growth.

Sounds like we are getting some good momentum.  

The market is part of it, but even within the same market you'll see huge variation from host to host.My experience has been that VRBO's algorithm is EXTREMELY momentum driven compared to Airbnb's. 

When the motivation does arise, you want to already have some marketing momentum with your prospects through past mailers/communications.