- Ignore daily static like unemployment rates, RE price fluctuations- Focus on long term trends in choosing a market- Demographic Factors- Population Size- Focus on MSAs of at least 200,000 population or more- Population Growth Trend - Economic Diversity- Anchors- Relative Price /CAP RatesWe decided to choose two markets so we could hone in and try and not try to focus on to many.

Fluctuating expenses?

So smart investors with dollars can make a huge gain on the currency fluctuations. 

I personally think you are wiser to put down 30-50% as a protection against market fluctuations.

Remember rents can fluctuate.

Always make the tenant responsible for any utilities that can fluctuate due to their consumption (gas, water, sewer, electric).

Newer, older,  renters, home owners, fixer uppers, beautiful houses, residential, commercial.The reasons you are looking for pockets like these is in these pockets there is what is known as price fluctuations.  

The downside is that the housing prices there can fluctuate down as well (as demonstrated when the last bubble crashed).

The number fluctuates from quarter to quarter.

The valuation of public sales in RE is rather low due to the fluctuations in RE markets, which is more volitile than say people getting hungry and going to Ryans.