If you are looking for population growth, southeast NC is not the best overall place to be.

@Joe Parrish has been a huge asset in the growth of my development company in Boston

Not sure if I can link outside, but this list has helped me immensely with multi due diligence. http://www.commercialpropertyadvisors.com/wp-conte...

Books are fantastic for personal growth and development, but it is only a supplement to what goes on in real estate investing.

Two important factors in multi-family are population growth & job growth. 

Maybe student growth will keep outpacing it.. who knows. 

After some thoughts about it all, I think the real question is: At what point is it worth to give up equity over faster growth.

You'll get lots of no's but some yes's and that's all you need to grow. The

Pro: Higher day one cash faux.Con: You need to hop on a plane (or long car drive) to visit your property, which leads to ...Con: You are less familiar with the market.Con: You are 100% dependent on complete strangers to make or break your investment for you and keep your best financial interests at heart above their own.Con: Can't easily verify work is being completed in a quality or timely manner.Con: If problems do arise, it will take you longer to find out and they will grow larger in that time.Con: If something goes wrong that your team can't fix (or in all likelyhood caused) then it is harder to for you to step in to fix it, stabilize the asset, and recover.Con: Lower appreciation and rent growth ... if you think this is speculative and not consistent, then review the last 50 years of price trends in the market you are in now vs the out of state market you are considering.Con: Lower tenant quality.

I thank you immensely for your time.Ryan