You will want to look at neighborhoods adjacent to the most popular ones to find better deals.

I’ve been chewing the cud on this topic (loan vs cash) for a while and I know my opinion isn’t popular.

@Jon GreerSources cited debunking the popular myth that Wall Street is driving up prices on a large scale.https://youtu.be/WjN8Fn0qWDc

I tend to like the organization of books though which is why I'm not really even attempting to come on here to really try to dig, until I have at least a fundamental knowledge of what I'm doing.Is there a really solid technical books that are popular around here and everyone knows about because they're really good, that start from 0 knowledge, but are not afraid to just lay out things with high information density?

its very popular these days.. 

Square Footage and Bed/Bath count are the most popular comparative factors. 

Popular area all year round....Unless they set stricter zoning.....but that could happen anywhere....

I have seen some other groups struggle to fund their first one or two 506(c)s because a large percentage of their investor base was not accredited, and thus were shut out.Michael Blank's SDA is very popular.

Scottsdale is a very popular area for both investors and retail buyers.

There are many popular ones that fit OOS investing(Midwest, Sunbelt areas).