I do understand that rental properties are a function of appreciation but wish to know what would be the best methodology to understand the overall negative cashflow to asset appreciation ratio or a metric to benchmark it against e.g. % appreciation YoY.

on developing the habits that got you to your 1M bench mark, they say making it to your first 1M is the hardest now is keeping it and growing it. 

Some of the old benchmarks have even been realigned now using satellite mapping.

When I do the fifty percent rule.using those figures, I'm barely at the $100 a door free and clear cash flow benchmark.

When I say it's next to impossible to "cash flow positively" in Brooklyn I mean with a 20% down payment which is the most common down payment and therefore the benchmark for all property analysis for mere mortals (in my eyes at least).

Use +/- 7% as a benchmark.

That has got to be a nearly undisputed sign of a town achieving a significant benchmark of growth

@David Morovitz I have been investing with Wellings for some time and they’ve always hit their benchmarks for distributions.

Next I'd benchmark my RE returns.

For me this property has become more of a benchmark for me while I search, but I am as an outsider stuck with on-market deals.