You can also look at the new build permit statistics by city to see where the building is ocurring and that will be key indicator as to which markets are growing rapidly.

On the other hand, we have opportunities in our city to buy either vacant land or knock-downs in rapidly appreciating areas, put up new construction, and make an absolute killing.

View report*This link comes directly from our calculators, based on information input by the member who posted.Can someone familiar with the Grand Rapids MIchigan market tell me if the numbers that I am using for the estimated costs are accurate?

There appears to be some confusion about information I shared during the Immigration panel at last year’s Iowa Ideas conference in Cedar Rapids.

It’s a small town, so values probably have not increased as rapidly as metro areas.

Like my buddy who was buying in Atlanta in 2013 and rapidly scaled up to 25 SFRs.

In my experience the rapidity at which corporations are off-shoring jobs is a far greater threat to domestic job stability. 

But in a rapidly growing city like Toronto, rents are skyrocketing and appreciation is also going up much more than my other investments. 

I had some that stayed over ten years, but I charged below market rents as I don't raise them and market rents escalated rapidly where I am, in NY.

My property is located in Grand Rapids, MI.