.** Small towns may rely too much on a single business or market segment.

For example, since the beginning of this year, the prices of Las Vegas properties in our target segment increased by >9%.What Is the Cost of Waiting?

Two benefits are that they can give you exposure to segments that otherwise would be difficult to access (in this case mobile home parks and self storage), and are great for passive investing (you need to decide if you’re ok with being a landlord or not).

I track the MLS in 2 week segments.

I know this post is old but in case anyone is still looking- the Best Ever Real Estate Show has a newer segment called "Beyond Multifamily" hosted by Ash Patel.

There are some owner-occupied segments with people who share motivating factors for selling their home.Seniors with Long-time Ownership: often ready to downsize or transition to assistance.Homeowners with Low Financial Stability Scores (FSS): Struggling financially and likely ready to cash in on their asset.Both these categories have additional advantages in that they probably don’t haven’t been updated and may have deferred maintenance.

Every investment segment will have bubbles, you just analyze your market and what rue value is and know before you make an offer if you are purchasing to flip, rent, short term, long term, refinance, etc.

The segment that's most interesting to me these days is co-working concepts with a franchise model.

I've also heard you REALLY need to know your market segments because the values can drop $100k+ within 1 block.  

When most people talk about the benefits of doing a cost segmentation study, they talk about tax savings.