Then pull up city data and see where the trend is going to head in the next 10-30 years if you plan to hold.If you are buying to live in, then make sure you can afford the payments and the price is historically low for that area.

As professionals, they may know of products and trends that you may not be aware of.  

Personally, I'm only investing in very short investments (one year) and very long investments (more than 5 years) that are riding long-term macro trends that will last a decade or more.

As attempted to contact different properties to schedule a showing I noticed a trend with a specific Property Management company, every time I called was provide options; I selected a prompt to text me the link to the website where I could choose and appt. time.I clicked on the link were it asked for my name and email (phone number was prepopulated in box already).

Mueller has some fantastic material on economic trends.

@Timothy Daniels The Airbnb Landlord experiment that I'm posting about on my home blog is currently trending at 20% above my annual baseline.

I think your best bet is to look at the market trends for the lower end neighborhoods and see which is trending upwards.

On another note, based other research that I have done granite countertops are actually trending downward in popularity for new home owners.

Or anyone nationwide really - I bet a lot of these trends might be popping up in other major markets across the country.

Keep in mind market value on rent in our area trends up in the summer and down in the winter.