Run ups can be sustained and wound up through smoke and mirrors like investors buying up a bunch of pre construction homes and bad loan programs, but the affordability for new buyers to get into housing runs the market.

I think you have to learn your target area, make sure you have enough cash to sustain you in case anything happens and jump in.

The floor might also be bowed where the toilet sits from rotted out sub floor and needs to be redone and extra structuring underneath.If the light fixture has sustained water below it's best to replace it rather than something bad happening later on.

I am not familiar with this company but I will definitely check them out.It appears they utilize used shipping containers...a very interesting sustainability play.

Year 2 will be much better, with a scalable, sustainable model.

Not sure I can sustain on that, but it got me in the game.

I already follow the Rocky Mountain Institute which is a company that promotes sustainability, with a special focus on profitable innovations for energy and resource efficiency... so it seems like your organization is right up my alley!

If that changes in the future and we a sustained increase and increasing trend in interest rates, we might start to see lenders call these notes due to lend at higher rates.Still pretty short, I think. ;-)

I am having a dilemma in finding a cash flowing property in Socal within resonable driving distance from my work..most everything is around 450k-500k for a 4 unit and being an owner operator in at least 1 (FHA guidelines) isn't going to net me cash flow...I have been getting very anxious because I fear I won't be able to acquire something that will be a good investment...

Two points in particular that resonate with me are @Ellis San Jose "opportunity cost" and @Jerry W. logic of the 12% existing cap rate versus losing money at anything below 13%.