I am brainstorming for an upcoming local business trade show hosted by our chamber of commerce that brings through about 5,000 attendees.I'd like to have a promotional item to give away for our brokerage with a relevant and/or unique appeal - something with a long "shelf life" and not disposable.What promotional items have you have good success / response with?

If it's fairly stable, I tend to rely more heavily on cash flow, but you still need to use both metrics together.

I am also generally looking for deals (westvale, tipp hill, university are, camillus) but just closed on a house last week and another in a couple weeks so I may need to pause in order to get those online and stable before going back into buying mode again.

My book shelf and kindle were already full now they're overflowing.

The Business LOCs were much more stable and indeed 2008-2011 or so was fabulous for LOC financing and distress acquisitions.  

But this is honestly in a really stable rental area.

More stable tenants tend to need to give notice, and move near the first of the month.Lower expectations.

I have a stable job as a Shipping Coordinator but training now in AutoCad.

starter rent in any city = the least stable.. the lower rents are generally were the properties are cheaper.. so just a rule of thumb not a law or anything.Also the 2% rule and the other rules were born here on BP out of the Great recession and are not germane anymore in most markets that are rebounding and recovering.. you have a new set of investors who started after 2009 who don't have a perspective other than the screaming deals they got in 09 to 2011   which are not reality today and may never be again at least until the next Global financial crisis.

Wikipedia - List of Metropolitan Statistical Areas You want a stable economic environment; small towns may be too dependent on a single company or commodity.