:Class A Properties:Cashflow vs Appreciation: Typically, 3-5 years for positive cashflow, but you get highest relative rent & value appreciation.Vacancy Est: Historically 10%, 5% the more recent norm.Tenant Pool: Majority will have FICO scores of 680+, zero evictions in last 7 years.Class B Properties:Cashflow vs Appreciation: Typically, decent amount of relative rent & value appreciation.Vacancy Est: Historically 10%, 5% should be applied only if proper research done to support.Tenant Pool: Majority will have FICO scores of 620-680, some blemishes, but should have no evictions in last 5 yearsClass C Properties:Cashflow vs Appreciation: Typically, high cashflow and at the lower end of relative rent & value appreciation.

Lots of restaurants, decent sized, and historic downtown area. 

They can give you projections based on historical data.

Contact the utility provider and get a historical average based on the last year of use.

Prime location in Seabreeze Historic Estates. 

I believe interest rates will be down to their historical average like in 2010s at sub 4%. 

And if you're comparing stock returns using 6% - 10% (which is historically accurate) you want to remember that you will be making 6% on only 85% of the profit (after paying tax). 

Historic average is about 60 buildings for sale at any time, so we are way down. 

Historically, that number has been 46% in a post-2008 market.In contrast, institutional investors have tampered their previous gusto for real estate deals, contributing to only 18% of transactions.

To get positive cash flow could take years.As for the appreciation, San Diego area has historically been outstanding.