., you won't experience rent controls and attempts by the government to regulate rent in certain areas due to the housing affordability crises experienced in those areas.Despite the US claiming to be a free market for instance, some mergers of companies in the market place often have to pass regulatory approval -- to prevent excessive concentration of market power in the hands of a few firms that can result in predatory activities that can prevail in such an environment.

There's also a super high concentration of well-educated and/or entrepreneurial people who know how to build wealth through all those various ways that you mentioned. 

.), but if can't imagine that ANYONE had ANYtHING positive to say about it:) He is changing the world (literally) as we speak..The 40 hours that you have "freed up" to concentrate on something you are passionate about FAR supercedes the stability that others have stated on this thread.

However, I want to concentrate more on finding deals. 

Of course, like Mark said, you can find them anywhere, but these are certainly the concentration areas.

They weren't all concentrated in one place.

I concentrate on bank owned, short sales, and picking up properties on contract...the auctions here are too full of collusion.The ideal situation for me would have been to negotiate with the lien holders prior to auction...but the homeowner wanted nothing to do with any of that.

Then my partner (thank god I found him) decided that we should concentrate on REO.

“Already the Bay Area has the greatest concentration of economic wealth of arguably any place in the country, which is creating the challenges the Bay Area is now experiencing,” she said.

It’s too concentrated having an $800k+ rental (low end in my area) and if that tenant decides to stop paying it’s going to really hurt!