Each segment, whether it's absentees or whatever will produce results..eventually.

Canadians represent the largest segment of foreign nationals buying investment property in the states.

Dan, We can surely help you with segmenting your expenses.

A good realtor can give you general market trends and even break the data down by smaller segments.  

If not, you may want to spend more to be in a different market segment, but I might suggest you won’t make much (if any) more profit on the nicer unit... but you will be dealing with a slightly nicer caliber of renter... more white collar versus blue collar. 

The problem is there is a segment of people on here who fabricate their data, and if you look into it you can see that some is egregious.

That said, if you are confident that that segment is overheated, I'd fix up and sell.

Be aware that this segment of society is trained to hound the system for all it can provide through helplessness real or otherwise, they can swamp you with demands and expectations if you have the wrong relationship in place.3.

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

Here in So Cal, if you segment the market by price; the higher end has seen prices holding up well while at the low end there are almost no sales taking place.