Just make sure your selected niche(s) and market are in a diverse area in the economy and have population growth.  

Talking to the employees, I constantly hear of everything from technical analysts that lost their jobs and can't get a new one because they used to be paid too much (plumbing department at Belleview and Federal) to folks that are excited to start a part time job at Safeway because they can't make ends meet on their Home Depot wages (this evening's cashier at Santa Fe and I-25).Where is this job growth you speak of because after over 25 years of living here, I'm seeing some pretty negative signals here on the Front Range and would love to hear the positive?

But I'm reading that Huntsville has exploding job growth and insanely low inventory for owners and renters.

As you know, they are relocating all the prisons from Anne Arundel County out your way, so it is a growth industry.  

What we've done is figure out the annual cash flow number we need in order to meet our goals and then back into how many units/houses/etc. we'd need and then target some type of growth per year to meet that goal.We are pretty conservative with these numbers and generally use $100 per unit per month as "take-home".  

I've seen numerous houses being purchased for under 100k, getting remodeled and then sold for over 200k.Really, so many areas of Dallas are experiencing that growth.

I used to be all about leverage and growth.  

I know the census has data, as well as Citydata and there's some decent demographic data on LoopNet, but I'm wondering if people know of other sources that offer information on demographic growth and trends in different cities through 2016 or maybe into 2017.Thanks,-T

. $58M in annual sales, good growth, industry has good long term prospects. 

Value add folks, low risk, low leverage people, growth individuals?