Where do you find buyers to populate your list?

Not to mention that practically not a week goes by without a newspaper headline showing a net outflow of population (I guess people can only take absurdly high taxes, government regulations, cost of living,etcetc for soloing before they decider's not worth it.) and SoCal continues to be a lousy place to invest, compared to other, more stable and "boring" Midwest and Southern markets.I agree with the "house hack"; if one HAD to live in SoCal, possibly THE BEST way would be through a house-hacked duplex, try or quad.

What is the 5,10,20 year job and population growth in the area ?

In our county, the process of updating the abstract and getting the title opinion done takes less than a week, but in some lesser-populated areas it can take up to a month. 

A long uphill battle for sure but if I can pull it off the fish population around the world will will fear me after my retirement. 

And to think that 60% of the world's population still doesn't even have access to the internet. 

Cities such as yours, (and near me such as Pittsburgh, PA and Morgantown, WV) have much less movement in our populations than say, Las Vegas, NV or Orlando, FL.  

Huntley has been coming on strong in recent years, and has had solid population growth especially with families in the last few years as well.

"Metro Houston led the nation in population growth last year, adding more than 159,000 residents, according to the U.S.

Learn about what the market rent rates are (because these could be higher or lower than what the current rent-roll is), what the schools are like, if the population is on the rise or is decreasing, crime statistics, etc.