I start with the location info, growth, median household income, all the vestmap.com DISCERN metrics.

Employment wise, Aultman Hospital is consuming the SW part of Canton and Timken Steel keeps plugging along with some smaller manufacturing companies staying steady, but outside of Aultman I haven't seen any significant job growth or companies moving here, and if they do, they usually aren't coming into the City.  

As a multifamily specialist there, I do mainly two types of housing: affordable (DSS, Section 8, CC), and students.Binghamton University is a massive state school that's outpacing the higher-ups' expectations for growth, and has been for a few years now.

Maybe it's early stages of a growth market.

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US population growth slows and fewer new households form, which is probably not great for RE investors; and 2. the Social Security trust fund runs out.  

@Jaren Woeppel , after looking at the available local options, we continue to self-manage although we export a number of tasks, ie. answering the phone.

If you want to fill your property with residents sourced from the companies above, imagine being the overworked, relatively low-level employee tasked with finding the appropriate housing ASAP.