We do a lot of business in and around this area and statistically have had a good experience. 

General medical and surgical hospital concentration may be of interest to some.https://factfinder.census.gov/faces/nav/jsf/pages/...You can plug in the following selections, add your level of specificity, drill down and download:Search using...Program: Business Patterns Metro/Micro Statistical Area: All Metropolitan Statistical Areas within United States NAICS/NAICS Based Industry: 622110: General medical and surgical hospitals

Does anybody have suggestions or long-term statistics for this sort of thing? 

It is hard to recommend even a good course when I know statistically an investor will not be successful.It is worth mentioning that one of the most comprehensive courses I took was by @Charles Parrish.

If you feel that there is a better way for me to gain those things or more with my current circumstances, I'm willing to hear you out and change/alter the path to my goals.I'm new to this and have read/heard that the cash flow generated relative to the value of the property is the number one statistic to look at.

Carlos, how are you going to make money with these statistics?

They should also have some good research reports on job growth, hotel statistics, sales tax receipts, housing prices, etc. 

It may be a bit of work but CA Association of Realtor and Bureau of Labor Statistics site offer some data that you might want to take a look at: http://www.car.org/marketdata/data/housingdata/http://www.bls.gov/help/hlpformseriesid.htmIf you can run the both data and combine them together, this might give you some clue.Good luck to you,Grove

I'm not that excited about my degree, however statistically you can a have better job. 

As a real estate investor myself, I am very curious to see if anyone has statistics or anecdotal estimates on what percentage of tenants actually use these payment plans?