Personally, I've been focusing on understanding local market trends and tailoring my strategies accordingly.

Right now I am preparing by educating myself on different techniques. 

Another avenue is portfolio loans, tailored for those with multiple properties.

I already owned a large portfolio, but wanted to learn some non-traditional techniques for acquiring properties.

You change your teaching technique.

I am in Austin and Texas markets are shifting to buyers/renters so tailoring your search would be good.

People ask me all the time what I did at the beginning to be so successful and while I rattle off the usual stuff (reinvested all my money back into the business, delayed gratification, etc), it's really occurred to me again that before I bought a single house I thought about who I wanted to have as tenants, and tailored my purchases to that demographic.

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This lets you tailor your approach.

We've got a group of students in one, a young couple who just moved to the area and doesn't want to buy yet in another, and a professional in the third who's opening up a new branch of his company here.I think proximity to the cool stuff of a city is almost more important than trying to tailor your location to a specific group.