I mentioned KC, because it is a good example of a linear market, one with slow but steady growth, rather than boom and bust and over-reliance on any one industry like tech for growth.Speaking of growth, you're right to look at population trends (inbound and outbound numbers) and rent growth over time.

This thread is more of a reminder to myself to not rely on social media or software rather, to learn how to form relationships in person without the reliance of technology and to always remember that this is a business based upon ethics, communication, reliance and execution, not technology.                      

For that, you have to go to the interior - smaller towns, further from the border, more reliance on one industry for their jobs, lots more land to expand into, and so on.That's my take anyway :)*Clarifying my comment on Rent Control:- You can lease out your home/apartment/whatever for as much as you want/whatever the market will bear.- The control is in the increases: those are regulated province wide by the government.

There is another perspective that the lack of sufficient volumes of cases and consistent case law and the reliance on qualitative descriptions (like "intent" and "productive use") rather than definitive holding periods and specific investor vs dealer actions have actually muddied the waters for those trying to act with integrity.  

@John Horner  you guys have over reliance on attornies in your closing process.WE would be doing this work without an attorney.. actually our title company would handle it for us.. and if they got no where then we go to the state and pound on the door.. the state wants money you have the money.. they should or will take the money.you step in and do the leg work...

Now, 10 years late, the youngest baby boomers are turning 60 and the ones who are retirement age have been slow to leave the workforce.There will be an impact when the baby boomer generation fully retires and again when they pass away, but I don't know if that means despair for those of us remaining.With the technological changes where the very core of how we work is changing (people working remote for example and less reliance on a motor vehicle), I think it's really hard to predict doom and gloom.Yes, we will have recessions, but I doubt anything close to what compares to 2008. 

This was primarily driven by a reduction in the reliance on Construction and increases in Financial, Education, and Health Services.We have sites in Chandler on our radar; so, near Gilbert. 

I know some of the people building those giant buildings downtown, and while I am not happy with the style of the buildings the city allowed them to build (I am extremely conservative when it comes to architecture styles, and would prefer they were 100% faced in brick and not these weird mishmash things everyone builds now a days), or what I perceive as a lack of parking and over reliance on a luxury market, they are going to do quite well for themselves, so on that front it is hard to argue.

A million dollar life insurance policy is pretty amazing if your family is broke, but as investors it's likely that most of us will already leave a significant nest egg behind when we pass, greatly reducing a reliance on an insurance policy.There is nothing wrong with insurance, but people need to stop implying that an overly complicated IB strategy will out earn other investment methods. 

Reliance on Free and Clear Sale.