If you have the ability to purchase and funds to get started they might spend time educating you as it leads to a business and a relationship going forward.If you have no money then really what you have is time to try and shadow and investor and do gopher type task items to learn from the ground up.

Basically they list properties that meet their various criteria (rent to value ratio, etc) and only work in areas with certain criteria as well (job groth, pop. growth, low crime rate) and then set you up with a property manager (you can select your own or theirs).I'm not even sure if they make any money off of you buying their listed properties.

Not sure if you could use that to make a determination about future growth, but one thing is for sure, it's going to continue to fluctuate.

Since my husband and I both work full time in our careers, we do see the need to delegate more of the property management tasks now.

In this case I would just pay the management company as my time would be a lot more valuable and I would not want to spend time doing administrative tasks such as described above. 

It also provides ability for multiple major tasks being done at once (while the utilities and foundation are going in, the building is already under construction in the factory)a few examples of projects (mostly the Florida and Louisiana projects) I worked on are at http://www.phncommercial.com/project-gallery/I will check with a few of my contacts to see who they recommend in NY area.

My task listeverything else.Pretty simple huh? 

Consistent growth is better than inconsistent rapid growth. 

Many of these communities like Safety Harbor, Dunedin, and Palm Harbor all offer monthly festivities with street vendors, pedestrian safe areas, live music etc.I could go on and on about economic growth, job growth, the number of people migrating to FL each year etc.  

This may limit growth.