I intentionally avoid leveraging up and scaling up, because it is more risky and a huge PITA ... my goal is to own the FEWEST number of units, with the least volatile profits, that meet my financial needs, with the fewest number of headaches, and I have done it without the need to scale up precisely because of the quality of properties I choose to invest in.

That is precisely what happened to me, and I now I am making it a mission to educate others in the power of controlling and weaponizing your finances.

Getting the search tool to be more precise.

Someone on another site was saying "crime is off the charts!!!"

Knowing those details would help us evaluate more precisely. 

(see first chart here: https://www.apartmentlist.com/rentonomics/rent-gro...) 

That's precisely what my business is all about ... helping people take that leap of faith. 

This flies in the face of US Census data according to the following chart.2) Your article does not cover population growth from the fact that more people are being born here than are dying.

We saw this in some parts of rural N> CA were rents were cheaper than a lot of the state .. and you ended up with these little cities with crime rates off the charts.. 

I have this situation below -  The below chart is from various properties.