We've even discussed purchasing and living in a property that we would then later turn into a rental while we work on figuring out our first steps.I came across this site researching a "coaching" advertisement and it looked like a great and diverse community.

@Jim Wang Kansas City is a good cash flow market with a diverse, growing population and economy.

It doesn’t address market correlations and characteristics for example such as if you had a geographically diverse portfolio but heavily concentrated toward growth markets, you would almost certainly get hit if growth markets took a hit even if you bought 3,000 notes.

Make sure it's diverse and has a growing population.  

In New England, there's a lot of diversity in features. $1,500 is certainly the median rent for this type of unit. 

You have picked a great place to be with its diversity and population growth.  

A generation of “digital natives” (those who have grown up with technology and social media), Millennials are diverse, as well as the most educated generation up to this point.

Look in the middle of the country at secondary and tertiary markets with stable and growing economies that are relatively diverse and not at the mercy of one large corporation. 

Diversity is very important to me.

I agree about diversity and potential for other markets.