The immediate cash flow on a leveraged real estate investment with that $150K will be lower, but your wealth will increase exponentially faster with leverage (assuming the business is run professionally, of course).Here are some fancy charts demonstrating this point:I built this spreadsheet out to answer this question for myself about a year ago.

His hair looked greasy.

Make some calls ....and forget the Large money center banks...the small State Charted and /or local lenders are best.

Now I do a recorded webinar, so it's similar to the conference call concept but with a visual component so I can share photos of the project, charts, and data during the discussion so that viewers don't have to flip through printed material to keep up with the conversation.

We did not charge him for it, because our contractor cleared it with one of those long plastic snake things and removed a clump of hair.

The day of the open house it went "Pending - Contingent Showing," I went and asked the agent what happened and she said the owners just got an all cash offer they couldn't refuse.I'm in the same situation about whether we should wait since charts and discussions show that it'll cool down, but I think you'll just never know and I feel like the longer I wait, the more it grows.. even  if it grows slower, it's still growth.  

Based on this chart am I reading it correctly that Cleveland would be the better market based on rental vacancy, growth, median property and Atlanta is 2nd.

@Nick Orr re your question on how to grade neighborhoods/areas, below is a chart from Account Closed that I think does a nice job summarizing how he thinks about neighborhoods/area grades.

(As long as what they are currently getting isn't off the charts)

In the 2008, they went up past 400 basis points.Here is a chart that describes the last 10 years of TED Spreads courtesy of the St.