Well, statistics show that people are leaving not only church, but religion, in record numbers.

My suggestion is to run your own statistics on what's currently in your target area. 

But I hate to say, BLS statistics say TX had a -9.6% 12 month % change in employment in private Natural Resources and Mining employment in 2015(*).

I believe @Scott Trench has compiled some good statistics on rents in the Denver metro area, perhaps he can chime in?

Statistically 1 in 3 in this thread would go broke within 5 years.

I would ask myself, is there any statistics that can tell me how what percentage graduates of this program actually had made money from the knowledge gained from the program other than the founders?

I have learned to completely disregard articles like this and just constantly be checking my own statistics for my property and watch for trends.

I studied finance/statistics in school and also took the real estate classes my school offered.

Both has tenant screening and I posted in my listing clearly to apply first followed by touring after shortlisting potential prospects. 7 days listed, 50 application till now, 7+ applicant are prospects, 4 weeks I have before tour, as of today there are 7 homes available in the market for roughly same moving date (first week of July).Given this above statistics, there are few applicants they are personally emailing me. 

So its as I say statistically impossible not to deal with some sort of default.