My inbound strategy for my local area is creating a educational hub on real estate and just try and draw as much traffic to my site as possible in order to create a large number of back links.

Things like beds/dressers no one is going to break in and steal.It's selling as an investment house (because you have a year long lease) so the traffic will be quite a bit different than on a single family sale.

There's the University of Texas, the Capitol, 6th street, live music, rivers, lakes, good restaurants and plenty more.That weekend UT football will be playing away which is helpful in that traffic won't be as bad and hotels won't jack up their rates as if they were here.

As for a job in either areas , they are close enough together so depending on traffic a commute might not be so bad. 

@Brian C Brian, I heard from someone about posting a craiglist add for rentals of the units in the building (before you put an offer down), and see how much traffic you get. 

You will likely need a planner as well regarding traffic, parking, water diversion, sewer impact, ingress/egress, etc. 2.

If the location is right, access, traffic counts, sight lines, tenant mix,rents,etc. then they can be great long term investments.The younger generation loves to shop at brick and mortar.

Hey @Han OoI talked to a Contractor the other day who uses home advisor, and his experience with internet leads matches mine....when that lead came in, he had better pick up and call within the first 15 seconds or someone will beat him to it.At one time, I used Direct mail to drive traffic to my websites....I got a fair number of leads that way, but like my friend the contractor, most, immediately after filling out my form, would search for someone else like me...I'd show up to appointments with 6 other Investors.That's when I realized I was spending an awful lot of money driving traffic to my competitors sites.Now I only give out my phone number and live answer my calls so I can have them exclusively, overcome objections and build rapport all at the same time.

The location is great, across from a train station and on a busy street with high foot traffic and is located in my neighborhood.

I would like to start looking at West Baltimore neighborhoods, and develop a decent way of figuring out how to evaluate these areas.One thing I have noticed personally, is that if you drive down a block when school lets out in the afternoon and things seem quiet and secluded - not a lot of foot traffic, this is good.