If all four conditions are well met, e.g. its close to Center City with good transportation (public or otherwise), pricing is steady or rising, permits are constant/persistent (indicating still room to grow), and rents are solid, if improving, and the inventory moves quickly -- you have a good neighborhood with long term growth.Would love to hear other investors thoughts on this -- these are just my very inexperienced thoughts.

I am a newly commissioned 2d Lt and my goal is to grow enough financial freedom, for myself and my partner, after my military career, or as a financial backup for my family in the case something were to happen while serving.

We have the greatest concentration of commercial grows in the state.  

Some people start with 1 SFH and grow 'organically'.

These are referred to as absentee owners, a popular target for direct mail campaigns. 

Also, some quick online searching shows vacancy at much closer to 10% than 5% for that area.Overall, I don't really know much about the Fairburn market, but another quick search online shows that the city is growing, which is a plus.

Eventually, we decided to buy our home where we would raise our kids and grow old.We debated on selling the tri-level, but decided to rent it since we already had the house and we would not walk away with much cash.

Nashville TN 50x150 lotTwo homes - stacked front to back - popular here75,000 land costTwo 1600 SF homes - 3 bed 2.5 bath @ 105/SF build cost - 336k build cost320,000 sell price per house6% realtor fees14k interest - 4k survey - 1k legal fee - 36k builder fee0% down construction loan if at or below 80% LTVTotal cost of loan = 447k, Appraisal (estimate) = 640k, So total cost is right at 70% of appraised valueOut of pocket spent on soft costs = 20k~141,000 profit10 month timeline

He wasn't really using lenders last year, but has now started to in order to grow more quickly. 

So far all my properties I found have been thru MLS, but you’ll be amaze once you start growing and you earn credibility deals start coming to you..