How to find a particular RE Market

[Colin Murphy]

Hello everyone-

My wife and I have been researching Real Estate Investment (just the basics) for the past year or so. We've read many books, watched a ton of webinars, our next step will be to go to a seminar or boot camp (etc.). We've begun to look at different cities to see what is the best market to put our money... only thing is we don't know what to look for.

We live in California, where prices are clearly very high. We have thought of investing some where inland (Modesto, Merced, Bakersfield, Fresno) where prices are a little more affordable. We have also considered going out of state to invest (Phoenix, OKC, Athens OH, Austin TX, have all been on our list). Here is the thing, we really don't know what to look for in different RE markets to determine what positive factors would be.

Any help anyone can give us in this would be greatly appreciated. Thank you in advance!