Visit your city websight to learn of growth and future plans.Realtors will give you recent closed price by the foot comps.Dane

We get to know an area, and what the major influences in the area are, ask ourselves if there's a niche that isn't being met, what is the potential for growth in that niche, etc.

These are the numbers:5 units, fully rented with long term tenants (per loopnet)Repair costs: $5,000Monthly Income: $2875Monthly Expenses: $2351.34Cash Flow: $523Cash on Cash ROI: 19.7%NOI: $18,607 ($20,700 per loopnet)Accounted for 11% vacancies, 3% growth, 5% repairs, $326 for property taxes monthly, $250 monthly insurance, 10% property managementMonthly rents currently are a little low compared to area, $575/unit/month but I think with some new paint and simple fixes we could increase that to market value around $700. 

They always seem to think that the next big market correction is right around the corner and they pull all of their money out of their investments and lose a fortune in potential growth.

The Atlanta IKEA is located right in the center of one of Atlanta's hottest growth markets....Atlantic Station.  

I think I'm just going to go back to cash which will slow down business growth and in our situation, thats okay.

It's constant growth every day --- knowing that you will never be a master because you can always be better.  

The most important thing (in my opinion) to look at is job growth.

Statistical data from the 2012 US Census shows that the growth rate of many cities in the U.S. has recently surpassed that of suburban areas.

So its slow growth in the beginning, but then snowballs.