I do know that people have a little more of their income to keep and will probably use that not their primary residence to some extent. 3) Price point seems attractive to me vs CA prices and mortgage/expenses will be manageable if I have to make payments during vacancy periods. 4) Growing population and strong job markets.Am I on the right track with identifying where I am going to start building out my team of professional (PM, Realtors, Lenders, etc.)?

The problem is that the population is declining in rural America and Colorado is no exception.

In my experience, I will stay on big metropolitan area, with positive population growth.   

@Benjamin Barredo Job growth and population growth are huge for gauging the health of an investment area.

I am just starting to understand real estate investing and Austin looked promising from growing IT and population growth perspective.

Hi all,I have a property in an area that has a fairly large immigrant population.  

There are specific parameters you'll need to hit, such as minimum loan amount, minimum number of properties in the portfolio, and the location will have to have a certain population density in order to be considered.

I have had no trouble renting out my units in Taft, and that is primarily an oil town and has a population of about 9500 (compared to Bakersfield population of about 350,000). 

This closure prompted the creation of Obama Academy in East Liberty, since students who attended schenley high were from shadyside and schenley heights, they were redirected to this new school.East Liberty may be maxed out for flippers, but by no means is gentrified as there is still a sideable population of original residents from the non-gentrified era.There are almost no good deals in the city with good schools, suburbs are the place to look.

The population is expected to double shortly.