I also want to do some flips to get an understanding of the entire transaction.This is a great site with great information, tools, mentoring, and friendliness.

I also want to do some flips to get an understanding of the entire transaction.This is a great site with great information, tools, mentoring, and friendliness.

With a little friendliness however i was able to get a sit down with a landowner of some very large tracts that the people at the country store told me would never talk to me.

There is definitely a healthy level of transparency and friendliness, that we may be able to have this discussion.I'll give this more thought how to approach this.  

I always meet pets first, to assess friendliness and breed (pits can be called a lot of things but they look like pits).

By population growth, landlord friendliness, city size (I LOVE big cities), economic diversity, my budget and a few other factors.So Indianapolis is one of my winners which I am looking into more seriously. 

I'd look at population growth, economic drivers, diversity of employment, landlord friendliness, etc. 

The data can be helpful in getting to a shortlist... then you can dig in to the detail of a handful of markets, e.g. check landlord friendliness of the state, research what the employer base looks like in city, skim news headlines for top issues for the area (school performance?

Thanks for the question - for user-friendliness, I've edited the original post to highlight that I am interested in both SFR and MFR deals.

Investors often ask about other markets and landlord friendliness comparisons.