The next issue is the university students were sent home, this is my tenant demographic.

maybe a combination of seeing the current state and long term trends including inventory, demographics, builders not stepping up to capacity any time soon, as well as....wanting to diversify more away from the hot/expensive stock market equities, need to deploy capital, and seeing the opportunity of still low fixed rates and long term steady gains. 

@Lesley Whitley both of those areas can cash flow well in the short to mid term due to the low entry point but both have weak economic and demographic trends.

The demographics of an area seems to typically go from artists , then hipsters , then "yuppies" or more "mainstream types "You'll want to look closely at what types of businesses are opening in the area .

I’m open to all traveling professionals, but i recognize that traveling nurses/healthcare professionals make up one of the largest demographics of the mid term market.

Seniors might like it but that is only a part of the demographics.

I love to see student demographics from year to year - that is a leading indicator for what's happening in the neighborhood and the census guys aren't going to catch it any time soon.Data is your greatest asset when you are researching from afar.

Different locations present different sets of demographics, income, etc.

West Allis is a pretty big city with multiple neighborhoods and demographics, I wouldn’t consider it all the same asset class (C in your example).

I would suggest that you focus your efforts in finding a locating with demographics that tend to rent rooms and worry less about the overall rental market.