You may reach me if you want to start a charter school, academy of any sort I worked with people of diverse nationalities before all over state.

There really is no such thing as a stupid question, a stupid question is the one that go unasked.BP has members with experience in very diverse areas.

Because of this diversity, we have had very large employers come and go and there has been no affect on the local economy.The area has never boomed, just slow and steady growth.  

Biggerpockets community is truly awesome through their diversity (buy and hold, wholesalers, bird dogs, commerce, developers, flippers, agents, etc).

Biggerpockets community is truly awesome through their diversity (buy and hold, wholesalers, bird dogs, commerce, developers, flippers, agents, etc).

I appreciate that there are so many diverse, intelligent and knowledgeable comments on the forums.

End goal is to own a diverse portfolio of real estate.

A couple tips for identifying a good market: - #1 is jobs - both job growth and job diversity - growing population and, ideally, at least 250k people in the MSA (metropolitan statistical area as defined by census.gov) - you'll want to look at the tenant/landlord laws to see how quickly you can boot someone if they aren't paying rent - NYC it's pretty ridiculous at about 6 month whereas Texas, OK and Ohio (states where I invest) it's about 5 weeks on average from notice to out the door - and, obviously, supply/demand and cash flow Welcome again, and really glad you introduced yourself. 

Aside from the above it looks like Chicago is more diverse in at least a couple ways.

Two of the things to remember is economic diversity and population growth.