An investment, if done properly, is an income generating asset that will grow your wealth.As far as choosing a market, Destin/30A/PCB is a tourism and STR hot spot, so there is data from several sources that you can use to estimate what you should be able to bring in on an annual basis.

This was off-market with a burned-out mom & pop owner with an incredible amount of upside.

I can see he is forming his own unique groundbreaking strategy that none of us can understand, but one day we'll all give it an acronym or nickname, and it will be the hot new niche for everyone to try. :)

Small strip centers without a grocery anchor will face incredible challenges this year and next.

Since the information for most loans, licenses, and LLC's is in the public records, this is an incredibly easy scam to pull off -- and difficult to combat.BP has great SEO so posting here will show up high if someone does a search on you.

I was seeing if anyone knows of any good agents in the area to help me find the hot niches or if anyone knows how Scottsdale is doing in general.

.-- Owners maintain the property so those who cannot afford to do it have a roof over their head that does not leak (an un-doable repair expense for "The Working Poor"), and replace furnaces so they don't freeze to death in the winter, and replace hot water heaters so they can wash.The working poor cannot afford to buy furnace, let alone the price of installation.There is not a renter/owner problem in the USA, other than what is being artificially gined up.The system works well for both sides.Just my 2 cents. 

Do the rents include heat, hot water, and/or electricity all of which would bring down your cash flow?

Grand Prairie has been a hot real estate market the last few years.

I just want to know how to analyze like how to find out if the demand is high, how do you know if homes are selling fast, how to find out if demand for property in any area rising or falling or how to find out if a neighbourhood is hot or not, I've discussed with a lot of people and they recommend me to use city-data.com which is an excellent website to know about the market but even in that website I don't know what to look for like if the population is 20000 in a city is it good or not or what it should be or what should I type in google to know about a specific market or place?