Location Investment criteria> 50,000Near Walmart, Lowe’s close driving distanceUnemployment < 8 %Median household cost > 100,000 so you are not competing with stick built homesPopulation growing, stable, not significantly declining Great School district Crime rate not crazy Job diversity: call chamber of commerce, new jobs/employersPlanning and zoning figure out what type of zoning you have what you can and cannot do.

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I'm going to be getting into some rental properties but I have no income (my husband is the only working member of my household) so I was worried about how many loans we could get. 

And in the medium term, the Tesla I am driving is so much more of a car than those BMW and Mercedes, and when they come out with Model 3 in two years for $35,000, and cost of ownership becomes identical to that of a nicely equipped Honda Accord, there will me a mass shift to electric transport at the household level. 

It said 53,000 households had moved.

@Joshua Dorkin The big thing we have changed is our household budget.

These parameters will help decide what kind of yields you are searching for, which you can use to filter down your list of macro markets.Then I would start by looking at the macro market's fundamentals, that is the population, job and income growth over time.After that, I would look to see what the rents and home prices are and how those are trending as well.I would do a similar analysis, but at the sub-market level for the metro area you are considering investing in.Other metrics that I find valuable to understand are household income, poverty, unemployment, and educational attainment.

The median household income in Henderson is $62,592 a year, and when adjusted for the city’s low cost of living, it is about $600 higher.

As a point of reference 14.4% of homes are military households.

I've always used the same criteria- 3x household income, # of residents, pets excluded.