Maybe the people with low DOM are more sensitive to vacancy or the PM think they look better finding a tenant fast so they offer below market rent?

If you live far away, professional property management is an extra expense you simply must incur to safeguard your investment.Experienced builder and property manager Rusty Meador notes, "No matter how good of a real estate deal you find, it is only as good as its ability to be managed well."

Agree 5+ deals will either take a hit or be mainly cash only for a few years, they are much more interest rate sensitive then 2-4 units and cannot be financed at 75 ltv right now on many deals.

The depth of our reports helps an owner to avoid the need to hire a third party professional to justify their claim.To an underwriter this becomes a disclosure safeguard whereby at time of claim the owner is able to substantiate a full disclosure position with the insurance adjuster which puts the onus on the carrier to pay!"

It is a sensitive subject around here as BP is filled with all folks REI.

If you live far away, professional property management is an extra expense you simply must incur to safeguard your investment.Experienced builder and property manager Rusty Meador notes, "No matter how good of a real estate deal you find, it is only as good as its ability to be managed well."

You need to safeguard your business because if you don’t no one will do that for you .

All exit cap rates are somewhat educated guesses and IRRs are the easiest and most manipulated metric used in proformas of any investment type.Instead of picking a number from thin air or just throwing 50-100 bps on it (standard practice and certainly nothing wrong with it) instead use a sensitivity analysis table and look at a range of 200 bps either direction in 25 bp segments.I personally think today that we will see lower cap rates in the future.

Maybe I'm just being sensitive, but then again people might be acting a little bit like jerks. 

If you have large capital needs once you are over the bridge, I'd be concerned about index funds or buy and hold rentals as it seems like safeguarding your capital might be a bigger priority than you are giving credence to.