I will take the old growth redwood, full dimension lumber that is 100 years old sitting under my house but looks as dry and good as the day it came out of the mill yard over pressure treated new growth any day.

This approach focuses mostly on gradual, persistent predictable, solid growth of the investment over time and is what makes many people wealthy in real estate. 

In each market I would look for:Job growthUnemployment rateEconomic growthMarket stabilityPurchase price to rent ratios To add to this list:Crime dataInventory levels and average days on market per asset classPopulation growth/migrationSchool rankings

It's a straight line (in the real world, data is messy), where it should be more of an exponential growth rate based on historical rates.3.

Hi there - great thread :-).Here are my top books:Mindset by Carol Dweck - teaches to foster a growth mindset and that the pursuit itself of a skill or goal versus the end result and the embrace of failure on the journey is far more beneficial than to never try at all.The Slight Edge by Jeff Olson - the importance of small daily actions will lead to big results overtime.

Brevard county seems to be a good place to experience substantial growth in next few years And has some great fishing. 

Any investors out there familiar with other markets in Florida that are promising and you are having success with at the moment or speculating growth in the future other than Orlando/Tampa in multi family assets?

It allows use to earmark time for different tasks such as this based upon who in the firm is available. 

I do not, but this is on my list of tasks for the year... following.

The deal has fallen through for the following reasons 1)two business partners weren't totally in agreement and decided to go with cabins as their investments 2) a couple backed out after learning of the expansion of I26 and they decided to move somewhere else after finding out about Asheville's growth. 3) a couple couldn't get financing.