The most important factors to our team and potential investors when buying a park seem to be: to make sure it has value add, public utilities, ideally 100+ pads, near a large MSA (100K population), 70% occupied and T12 financials. 

A relative died......Based on how many times I have heard this, it is hard for me to understand how our population keeps growing

The population has hovered around 13,300 for the last 10-15 years.

If that is your plan, then you want to identify markets with growing population, growing rental rates, good market appreciation, and areas where many opportunities for these types of deals exist.

@Brad M.And from previous post you can see the population and job growth that's happening in Columbus compared to others. 

32218 seem to be one of them where i moved to... what other zipcodes is going up in value and/or gaining population?

We can be more confident in this if we see employment, population and wage growth, diversity of employment and a balance between supply of apartments and demandI could go into so much more detail on any of those bullet points but I wanted to give you an idea of what to look for.

Is unemployment decreasing, is vacancy decreasing, is the population increase, are jobs moving into the city, are wages rising... this combined with other submarket factors will stack the investment cards in your favor.5.

In fact from 1990 to current day the overall population of the town has gone down. 13,400 to 13,200.

Population growth?