In no particular order: per capita income, crime rate, vacancy rate, average rent, average home price, population growth/decline, school quality.

@Matt Kissler @Katherine Swanberg Regarding the Prosser area...the Yakima region, lower valley in particular, has seen strong growth in the viticulture industry and also agricultural industry in general.

In my view, one-off loans are not a long-term growth strategy.I would also avoid any lender lists you have to pay for, but this is not to save money.

If you do all that, in combination with a natural risk-avoiding approach as an investor, you will see that Mexico is full of opportunities as in the US or Europe (were I am from) pricing, growth, accessibility and affordability are incomparable to Mexico.

My question to Miamian's is what do you think of the future growth of Little Haiti as a whole?

(I view it as more capital growth.)Here are the problems I see with your analysis:(1) @Ben Leybovich is right.  

Reading and learning all I can; without challenge growth is not accomplished.Very encouraged by the obvious close knit community you all have here in such a competitive line of work.  

There is definitely room for growth and development around if the demand increases.Hope this helps!

That bodes well for long term growth.

This forum has been an immense pool of valuable information.My primary focus has been in the Milwaukee WI area.