I know some agents definitely believe the continuing growth of jobs/population in the region will keep driving home values higher.

My previous experience is in Data analysis and predictive modeling.I am also very concerned with the homeless population and would like to work with some people to create a homeless community that can help homeless people get back into the working world and help give them an opportunity to build up from where they are.

The household formation rate has still not picked up enough after the Great Recession to match underlying population growth.

While I concur with @Carrie Hiner that predicting the financial future is difficult I'm not certain the population pressure will subside substantially within 5 years time. 

They got through the crawl space grate for the owner and the cats were not spayed so populated and got out of control.

I have definitely seen articles about the declining population but have also seen as we've looked for property in Logan Square that property is being bought up as fast as it can be listed.

I live in Kelowna so I am obviously biased but Kelowna has a few major advantages over Kamloops - first being UBCO is here (huge student population) along with Okanagan College.

(Aging population)  Over the life of this Reit the returns are around 6% in dividends with 6% annual equity growth so around 12% total return annually.

Lots of stable employment here across different sectors and a pretty large college student population combine to make a tight rental market.

And of course I would get a professional property management company to manage it for me.I've done extensive research on properties all over the US, and come to these conclusions: 1) It's really tough to find good cashflow opportunities in the northeast and west coast, 2) if you look in the south and midwest, however, there's a lot of smaller cities (population 50,000 - 200,000) that have tremendous cashflow opportunities.A couple of Qs:1) Does anyone have experience in selecting a city 1,000+ miles away from their home just to buy investment properties there?