And just like with the food, everyone has their own taste buds, the same applies to investments - there's an appetite for every offering type as long as you know your audience. 

No different from commercials that say a weightloss product will help you get skinny or a soda is the best tasting.

Taste it.

now it may be in bad taste but a good deal is a good deal. does anyone have any idea how to move forward with trying to buy this property?

And yeah I agree rent control really does leave a bitter taste in the mouth for any angelino investor but what else can one do when life gives em lemons ? 

But that's not a temporary situation, that's a product of our fiscal environment and just a taste of what's to come.

Investment Info:

Single-family residence fix & flip investment.

Purchase price: $295,000

Cash invested: $11,000

Sale price: $409,900

My wife and I didn't have many options purchasing our seco...

Somehow just tastes that much better!

After screening some of the markets within manageable distance, I believe Philly is good place to buy and hold for a starter like myself to have a taste in REI: relatively lower price to rent ratio, with the potential of appreciation due to the population influx caused by living cost increase in NJ and NYC, and also equally importantly, the high existing demand base to withstand possible impact should anything go wrong in the wider market :)I hope I am on the right track (please tell me if anyone see Philly market differently than I imagined above ).

BPer's have good taste.