Investors need to evaluate their current strategy to ensure it will work should larger economic forces move agaisnt them.

Thank you @Kyle Mitchell and @Sam Rust@Richard Lovering Charleston is a good area for investing with good economic indicators to support.

It'll be imperative to work with an agent before listing the property to ensure the house has comparable properties in the nearby vicinity that have sold for similar prices recently (you'll have already done this before purchasing the property so barring any huge economic downtown, you'll have a general idea already).

Talk to people, read stats on sites, I even found that the City/County/State's economic development agencies have pretty good information.

The worst economic crisis of our lives.

The next one was got his degree in Economics and works deciphering graphs and trends in the insurance agency, but he had a love for cars, so he took auto mechanics and is regularly tinkering with his vehicles. 

These gains should stimulate housing starts, which stepped back during the third quarter.

To the more county or even city level, I always like to look at the macroeconomic drivers like population growth/decline, economic growth/decline, what developments are or are not planned, general price ranges, investor activity and sentiment, and the like. 

Those are solid economic anchors.

Agreed, stores are not a good forward looking view of economic drivers for growth.Personally I don’t feel the process is hard.