Focusing on neighborhoods with job hubs or easy access to transit may provide reliable resale potential.

Would you focus on areas near the medical hub (downtown, Summer Hill, etc)  or in booming Columbia county, near the Army base Ft.

Its proximity to key transportation hubs, the Airport, and Tyler Perry Studios, along with other amenities, makes it an attractive area for this investment strategy.If you're leaning towards STR or MTR, you can consider areas like East Point or College Park.

The gateway is just a hub that all the locks connect to.

Here are some links that list a few.http://hubpages.com/hub/Top-10-Jobs-in-Seattlehttp://www.leapfroggroup.org/for_members/members_resources/regional_roll_outs/1277465/SeattleWA

You've got conventions, state fair, chili fest, Southern Colorado hub,  and of course temporary work.

@Ali Mirabzadeh I would add that Denver is the bigger transportation hub which could be better for many reasons.

Just 218 miles from Silicon Valley, Reno benefits from its proximity to major economic hubs.

It is a major tech hub in the midwest with large companies like Intel investing $20 billion, Amazon investing $3.5 billion, Google building 2 new data centers: one in downtown Columbus and the other in right outside of U.S. 33 in Lancaster.

It's the hub of employment and everything contacts back to Anch in times of economic decline.Interest rates are so low now, that even if prices fall 5% you'd still have a lower payment on a property should interest rates rise 1%.