Price of the Unit.This one is pretty obvious, but it bears some further explanation.Quite simply, if your rental price is low, people want to stay—clear value economics.

None of them know anything about economic policy or how this stuff works.

If it is the economic center of the town then I would make sure it's not about to close down.

Are buy and hold investment properties actually “recession proof” what form of investing is typically affected most with an economic down turn?

Read: Long Term Capital Management and The 2008 housing crisis as two great examples when values dropped and short term raised increased.

Worcester isn't Cambridge and I don't really see the economic evidence to support the continued growth at this rate. 

Plus, in 1998 and 2008 the Fed called them up to act as a private sector solution to a liquidity crisis.

There are several good cash flow markets but when comparing and evaluating markets, you should also look at the economic and demographic trends, the economy and industrial base, local property taxes and insurance and whether the state is landlord or investor friendly.

During the housing crisis here in Denver I had a smoking contract with Fannie Mae, I was given homes addresses with roughly a 15k-20k budget and told to basically fix up to Fannie mae standards so homes were able to be put back on the market.

We checked around those tax abatement properties and found out most of the properties with tax abatement are in Brooklyn and LIC, not in Manhattan.At the same time, we’re aware that there’s a concern about the apartment and condos inventory and oversupply problem.The pros about NYC are that it is unbeatable with its population and its status as a economic and financial center of the world.