I have spent the last year reading as many books as I could, talking to as many successful investors as I could, studying different markets and trying to understand trends as best I could, as well as traveling around to different areas and looking at properties.

Personally, i have seen a TON of listing activity for north vancouver recently and if this continues expect prices to start to follow in the downward trend, though how long this will take to become affordable (or if it ever will) is questionable. 

The common trend I've found is, the more you know the better off you are. 

I'm not saying you'll win every one, but I haven't noticed a trend and I tend to do a lot of the low down payment type of loans.

Unlike certain captive companies, they have many options to choose from.  

However, if you don't do your homework and just follow the crowd/buzzwords/trends then an out of state investment could bop turn out really bad (for that mutter, so will an in-state investment)

I'm certainly no expert in all specific markets, but looking at macro economic forces combined with vegas specific forces I remain convinced that Las Vegas is one of the best cities to live in going forward, and I believe it is on an upward trend going forward.

I am sure there would be an impact of job growth trends/ population on a particular neighborhood but I don't know how I would be able to tell from 3000 miles away.So here's an example and perhaps my give back to BP community here:Trump during his visit to China signed a huge financial investment package, according to which China will invest billions of dollars into US.

Just saw it in my email. https://www.realtor.com/news/trends/housing-trends-2018/?

I would try to stay close to the downtown if you can.Northern Bergen County doesn’t have much multi-family stock in general and the continued trend of low inventory isn’t helping.Some things I don’t like about condos.