Statistics show that in year 8 to 10, most appreciation markets have matched the cash flow of the high initial cash flow markets. 

I mean that purely from a statistical standpoint and I recently published a blog article about the new roles of an agent in working with buyers and sellers that you might benefit from:  "Why doesn't my agent send me any properties?"

Follow the statistics and especially the jobs. 

Effectively safer than 2% of all other locations in the US that provide crime data statistics. 

@Will Rodriguez I'm from the Chicago Burbs, so I won't have much weight to my input, but I would caution you to actually come take a look as Chicago's neighborhoods are really block by block on what's a D/C to a B/A neighborhood in some areas.From what I can see, you don't want to just use Trulia / similiar macro statistics if you're looking at properties, because in some areas if you're literally on the wrong side of the street, you're in the 'bad' part of town.Crime in general seems to be heavily gang related and most places that I've driven through you won't have to worry, but then again I don't live in the city and the parts of town that I travel to aren't sketchy.

@Mike Dymski The comment that I made wasn’t meant to be  statistically accurate.  

Note that this echoes a sentiment I expressed earlier this year in a BP post here.On the Austin-Round Rock Metropolitan Statistical Area...More than 29,000 (29,569) single-family homes were sold in the five-county MSA in 2016, a 3.9 percent increase from 2015 and an all-time high for annual home sales volume.

I just checked the statistics and the $33M in liens sold for an average 3.8%...Needless to say the 8 bids that I placed on vacant / tear down lots in our target zip codes didn't work out too well.

The hot property was marked on Redfin.com: you occasionally will see a red "hot" word on a property, telling you that based on the redfin statistics, the property is a "hot property" and will be sold in XX days.

“May 2020’s statistics show that our local industry continues to avoid any downturn related to COVID-19 and social distancing.