If it's long-term wealth, you'll focus on properties with growth potential.Measure Progress: Goals help you measure how far you've come.

Thinking population growth might be a good indicator but not sure that’s the correct / only measure.

Market supply is measured in if sellers stop posting houses for sale there would only be enough houses to last (x) months. 6months is a balanced market.

The outcome shows that your "pretty through vetting process" has been weighted, measured, and found wanting. 

Good news for your RE portfolio.true, it is the rate of changes of inflation that's being measured , but not the cost of the good itself.which create a good point, if we wait long enough, even without fed increasing rate, the inflation would go down by itself because logically speaking a price can't go up in the same vertical off-shoot.

Rent rate doesn't affect the value as it only use for lender to measure the amount rent to be use to for borrower to offset the liability of the property. 

As opposed to it being a depressed area per se (such as gangs or meth/heroin addiction being the main contributor).There also measures to take against the party population, beyond regular due diligence in tenant screening, such as using parents as guarantors or renting only to upperclassmen and post-grads.I think it's also important to note that ECU has medical and dental schools, a top rated graduate program, and the ECU Health Medical Center, including a main hospital, emergency department, and children's hospitals.

That trait can't be measured in dollars.If your hard-stop is 10% or 25% of net worth invested into each deal, you'll be limited to sponsors who are topped out at three to eight deals (lenders require sponsors to meet certain net worth and liquidity thresholds, so that means that at least 10% to 25% of their net worth has to remain liquid).  

Take measured steps.Keep an eye out for a blog I just wrote for Bigger Pockets to be released sometime soon.

I doubt if any potential renter is going to inspect the property with a tape measure and calculate the square footage of the bedrooms and bathrooms in order to make their decision to rent the place.