Lastly, look for access to mass transit, major traffic routes etc.

However, there are other incentives you can provide that I think would mass legal muster. 

@Ian Coddington I’m actually pretty near you on the other side of mass doing something similar.

Sought-after area (close to new mass transit center).

You see, I've already reached "critical mass".Of course, when a pitcher throws a fat one right over the plate, I'm going to "take it deep".all cash

I should be getting the word out there to distress property holders en masse that I am in the market and let them come to me rather than scouring and cherry-picking pre-foreclosure lists.2.

Earlier today, I was sent an article from the folks at Forbes that they thought our readers would be interested in.The article is a great read and brought a new perspective to things for me.Subprime In Sheep's Clothing talks about how a new trend in the industry, a mass of defaults in Alt-A loans, may continue the downward pressure on the markets right where the sub-prime loans left off.This one is worth looking at!

The town probably has a population of 5k-7k and it's in rural PA but close enough to a 20k population town that suspect is where most of the residents work at.I feel like the media is trying to help kick start people into thinking the housing market is at it's bottom to get people buying again but the stats I get from my local Realtor on absorbtion rates, DOM, and prices says it's not near over yet.We also haven't seen the mass majority of the option arms begin to reset yet, that's another 2 years away until that wave gets here.

MASS MARKETING AT ITS FINEST!!!

At some point the area reaches a critical mass, and success becomes assured.