I never in a million years thought I would enjoy reading, but it has already began to change my life since I began reading into finance about 5 months ago.

I just heard today on the Bigger Pockets podcast that a couple of factors to consider investing in another market are: population growth, population of at least 1 million, rent growth, job growth, etc. so I can see why the media hyping up certain cities would correlate with those factors. 

You'll probably get a million different answers, but I love Five Points. 

Originally posted by @Ryan Swan:The market is hot because it's a perfect combination of: 1) Low inventory on the market (large buyer pool competing for fewer houses)2) Very high buyer demand (everyone wants to buy, and there are a lot of people relocating to AZ)3) Interest rates are low, which further fuels #2 above 4) Tempe has always been a popular place to live and it's landlocked so it's not like buyers can go further out to the new developments of Tempe (there aren't any)Thank you for your reply, I just can't believe how many of these houses are going for almost half a million dollars.

Billionaire Jay Paul just spent $73 million on a luxury apartment building in Redwood city on 12/1 that came out to $816,666 a unit.

By the way, among metro areas with a population greater than 1 million that had the highest foreclosure rate is our neighbor, Riverside, California (0.28 percent).Home Flipping is Down but Profits are Up.

“In house” operators associated or under common ownership with the CF platform itself.Now that the maximum yearly raise has been increased from $1 million to $5 million, there may be some viability in Reg CF for real estate.

Even estimating on the low end, with little to no appreciation, we should have about 1 Million dollars in equity spread over 20 single family homes. 

If so, how much on property worth over 1 million?

Then, balk at paying much less to go into a career involving between 100's and millions of decisions, all financial, and question getting that knowledge from those that are actually successful doing it?