Trying to figure out what a good area would be to invest and how to research areas based on population growth/jobs/etc.

If you look at the numbers for Texas as a whole, we have doubled our population in the past 40 years. 

@Jose Corbera If you can self manage and have a great location with historical appreciation ( mulitiple decades) and all signs point to continued job and population growth, that typically is a winning combo.

It does not matter the ages of your accounts, the number of inquiries, or how many accounts you have, they are required to list 3, and that's the go-to auto-populated when there is no real reason (other than it's not really possible to have a perfect FICO score). 

In a highly desired/ central area where the population continues to grow every year, the house itself was bound to appreciate in value.

Or if a huge population of people just search no fee apartments only.

Rochester is attractive on paper based on the returns you can get with lower price points on homes but you have to consider the trade offs of the local market ie. high property taxes, flat population growth and job growth of about 1% year on year. 

I've been toying with the idea of buying nice multi's in towns/cities that are in college towns and densely populated cities/ towns in my state. 

Columbus has seen a lot of growth y/y and is the 14th most populous city in the country.

New construction in the path of progress of an exploding market fueled by strong population and job growth.