Normally the areas that are seeing significant job growth is the way to go, especially if it's an area that people want to live.

A learning moment for yourself and the many members who follow you.Keeping up with rapid growth can be difficult at times.

I personally probably wouldn't invest there, but it is interesting.Lafayette is growing with not only Purdue but several strong manufacturing centers in the area.Ft Wayne is intersting - I grew up there and see a lot of growth every time I visit family.

Hi Jose,Ankeny is building to keep up with incoming demand due to their projected growth.

Growth rate of community?

I choose these two areas based on proximity to where I currently live, population growth, job growth, vacancies, and the overall strength of the rental market in these areas.Any feedback would be appreciated!

Do I take advantage of the area's growth and since also can be used commercially perhaps rebuild a place of business such as a bar or restaurant?

The growth won’t happen unemployment rate is lower then national average and low crime.

They the turn their aggregated income all on paying off one property, get it done, and then move all their augmented aggregated income to the next property, get that done, and rapidly snowball all the money to paying everything off.There are all too many others, however, who base their business model on perpetual growth, think their spreadsheets are magic and will always work out month after month, smugly believe they've calculated for every possible manifestation of Murphy's Law that could hurt them, and just keep on acquiring and acquiring (and inflating and inflating their lifestyles) until something breaks their positive cash flow prediction model for a month or six and they go swirling down the toilet to a bankruptcy they never saw coming.When you owe someone money and you've committed to paying them over a schedule, there are always risks.

Rental growth has been strong so that keeps me buying so I guess it’s offsetting the higher prices and rates but I feel like I’m pushing the rents in my market.