This actually makes it shockingly easy to vet a lender for REI-friendliness.

It's about landlord friendliness and the crazy cycles.  

Be sure to consider landlord friendliness, job growth, and new housing starts in your numbers.

The only thing more important than having local talent is being able to attract non-local talent based on low cost of living and family-friendliness. 

Mainly I've looked at the Population Growth, Median Household Income, Vacancy Rate, Median Rent, Landlord friendliness.  

Hi,
I've heard from many folks that Seattle, WA is not very landlord friendly. Is that the case with all of King County? For example, Kent, WA is an area I am interested in. Do landlord rules apply the same way there...

I'm looking into Greater Seattle area for the first time and would like some advice and pointers in terms of landlord friendliness of each surrounding county that's worth considering for rental property investment, especially King vs.

As a resident of the city, it's not as bad as the news networks would tell you.That is to say nothing of the city's business friendliness, which does not seem likely to get better.

Lots of markets look great on paper and generally speaking the REI market is a reasonably free one such that rewards are balanced pretty well with the risk profile of that market.For sure you should consider proximity, job & migration patterns, "landlord friendliness" of the local laws et al when choosing a target market, but to rip off David Greene's point: just about any RE market works if the investor has a solid roster of business partners in their Core Four.If you want cash flow, go to the MidwestIf you want appreciation potential, go where the population & rental growth numbers look strongIf you want a market where you can be there in a day if there's an emergency, limit your search to California, Nevada, Arizona & SW Utah

@Crystal Smith  I'd love to connect -- My wife/I and 2 kids went to Milwaukee in July and absolutely loved it.Anyways what we saw was simply amazing, the energy, friendliness of the people, all the restaurants/bars, neighborhoods, amazingly clean, lots of investment going on etc etc.