Find a market that we are excited to enter.
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We should not be thinking about these data points as binary (yes or no). If a market has 100,000 people vs 30,000 people that doesn't help us make a decision. We could make a priority matrix or equation that gives us an objective number to compare but we aren't skilled enough to know what an acceptable rate of variance is for some of these data points. Instead, we should scorecard these out and show the differences in a graphical or colorful way to show where a market is very different than the rest.
Population
Population growth
Median income
Median house value
Total housing units
Home ownership %
Median rent
Rent to income %
Taxes
Industries (fortune 500 companies)
Military base
Hospitals
Colleges
Landlord laws
Flooding
Snow removal
BiggerPockets sentiment
In order to have consistent data, I will pull all my information from the following resources. These appear to be accurate and have a published methodology with them.