Larger parks will give you more economies of scale and better management solutions.  

For instance, new housing is generally priced a little higher because there will be less maintenance, but if you know it is going to appreciate because it is a growing economy and you would have the peace of mind that everything is brand new, hopefully not a lot of maintenance could still be a good investment.

@Woodly Tisme it’s not bad, not nearly as expensive as the Boston market of course, but our economy is also weaker than Boston.

Louis, Detroit and San Francisco.It is a seemingly contrary assessment, given the current strength of the economy and of homebuyer demand, but the dynamics of this housing market are unlike any other — the result of a housing crash unlike any other.

But by nature of a cyclical economy it is either always coming or here already.

Of course this brings with it the need to emphasize "forced" appreciation as we can't count on the economy at large to drive appreciation for us like so many of the larger operators can.

That’s true, at least not directly... but there are all sorts of indirect effects on the economy, no? 

Things in the economy get shaky? 

What I mean is.....the economy can be smoking hot on fire....and an individual property or neighborhood could go down in value during that time.

Both are good cash flow markets with good economies and population growth.