Make sure you are selecting a market that is str friendly - many of the best str markets currently are retracting their zoning and ordinances to minimize its prevalence in their market as a response to community pressure.

Every year the city mobilizes "Angel's Night," with tens of thousands of volunteers patrolling areas at high risk.[40][41]Problems[edit]Population decline[edit]As Detroit's abandoned houses have been demolished, gaps in the previously urban environment have emerged, which is sometimes called urban prairie.Further information: Demographic history of DetroitLong a major population center, Detroit has been going through a major reduction in population; the city has lost over 60% of its population since 1950.[42] A Michigan web site compares Youngstown, Ohio to Detroit on a much smaller scale due to its own economic problems.[43]Detroit reached its population peak in the 1950 census at over 1.8 million people, and decreased in population with each subsequent census; as of the 2010 census, the city has just over 700,000 residents, adding up to a total loss of 61% of the population.[44][45]A major change in the racial composition of the city also occurred over that same period; from 1950 to 2010 the black/white percentage of population went from 16.2%/83.6% to 82.7%/10.6%.[46] Due to the prevalence of the one-drop rule in assigning African-American race in the 20th-century United States, arguably a better comparison figure from 2010 is 84.3% marking African-American even if they marked some other race, and the 7.8% non-Hispanic white population of Detroit in 2010 might be a better figure to use for comparison figured.[47] Approximately 1,400,000 of the 1,600,000 white people in Detroit after World War II have left the city, with many going to the suburbs.[48]Unemployment[edit]According to the U.S.

Its regionalized in areas were if your goal is to buy SFR's and there are plethora's of them then probably not that important as agents will bring them to you and you will always have deals to bid on.But if your in Very tight inventory markets were wholesaling is not nearly as prevalent as other areas.

I'm trying to find a good way to research how prevalent renting is in certain areas in which I'm considering investing.

We are headed towards an automated society where many jobs become obsolete.I know others suggested software, but that is already prevalent, so I wouldn't call it new. 

In SoCal, HOA is so prevalent and even many SFRs have HOA.

My long term strategy is to be a buy and hold investor in multi family or mobile homes (since they are very prevalent in East TN).  

Talking to people with experience means learning what they're doing as compared to learning what you - and they - should be doing: what they're doing right and what they're doing "wrong".There's an unfortunate and extremely prevalent and powerful bias here against paid education.

@Jay Hinrichs, Well, hard money loans are a part of the crowdfunding universe, but certainly not the only option, nor even the most prevalent.

@Douglas Skipworth  I thought so most states you have to be licensed.So how can a company like mid south if those complaints on BB are true still be in business if indeed they still are.I know in CA and MS and OR were I have brokers license's these violations would be dealt with swiftly and licenses would be revoked in almost all cases unless it was a small violation that got correct.. but having witnessed first hand what goes on in the mid west and deep south in the rental game I would pro offer that this behavior if true is prevalent in the organization in question.AS for getting the word out on a PM review site that will be easy...