I would also suggest Cascade Brewing Barrel House, Eastside Distilling, Sessionable, and Migration Brewing. 

Every property of interest must be evaluated based on current and future performance.Current ConsiderationsTime to rentRenovation Cost & RiskInitial ROI and cash flowPurchase PriceMaintenance costAcceptable area rental restrictionsIn an area that is doing well and likely to do better in the future.In the migration path of urban sprawl.Future ConsiderationsThe location has a track record of appreciation and rent increases.It physically matches the expected demographic changes for the foreseeable future.Buy what your “customer” wants to rent, not what you think is a good property.

Young, educated people will start off wanting the urban, big city lifestyle, but once they have kids, I think they will migrate to places that are safe and have great weather and outdoor activities. 

About half of Texas's population gain since 2000 resulted from natural increase (more births than deaths); around 29% from net domestic migration gains; and 22% from net international migration gainsAnecdotal experience in the Amarillo area has been that smaller towns are on the rebound.

Thank you for the suggestion, I will probably migrate over to that!

I don't care what your political affiliation is (believe it or not this comes up a lot with my investors), but a LOT of people are gung-ho on Texas as a state and lots of businesses are migrating there as well.Strategies can include buying properties near: major businesses/plants and colleges.

Also, we had a number of people migrating to Michigan for short term projects in the area, so that kind of helped.

And a lot of start-up companies are migrating to this city as well because of the OSU campus that has thousands of talented students graduating and looking for positions locally.Everything that’s going on here in Columbus is attracting investors and other businesses from all over.

., shifts in pricing, demand-supply changes).Analyze local or regional real estate data.Identify key economic indicators impacting the housing market.Stay ahead of demographic changes or migration trends.Do you have any go-to platforms, datasets, books, or even strategies that have been especially valuable?

I agree, seeing migration patterns coupled with insurance costs and insurability might be a good macro-economic indicator.