It would be impossible to name all of the numbers that I'm interested in, but stuff like job and industry growth, vacancy rates and if possible average rents, population change, and on and on.

Another company with a similar growth pattern is Enterprise Rent A Car.

With a light refurbishment to attract good long term tenants and good rents plus potential long term hold ie 10years for growth -bonus if it happens.

He clearly believes that slowing economic growth is the equivalent of deflation.

Over the last 3 years, there's been a 28.7% growth in the median sale price of small multifamilies.

On our side, we like liked a lot of things about the city; stable job growth, major university for student rentals, lots of potential for Airbnb properties, proximity to Phoneix, the only red flag we did not like was it did not follow our 1% rule. 

With the amount of growth our area is seeing take into consideration appreciation (about 6% in Wake County).

Columbus is the only Ohio market that has seen a rapid growth in jobs and population.Cincinnati and Cleveland, Ohio are solid too.

I look up crime stats and population growth charts and market analysis reports on Zillow or Redfin etc but I feel like that’s exactly what someone who googled “how to Real Estate” would do.

I think there are a lot of variables for each of these options to determine why and where you would invest, here are my thoughts based on a "broad view" of each market.If you continued to invest in Atlanta, obviously there will continue to be growth and appreciation, depending on the location.