Very clearly illustrates the value of owning real estate.

I guess its on my to illustrate that to them.Appreciate the insight all.

You can see what time of the year people like to buy and whatnot.Oct 6, 2015I think it makes it easier to grasp the movement of the housing market if you look at it as a flowing trend.Using data pulled from the Texas A&M Real Estate Research Center, I constructed a few simple graphs to illustrate what I believe to be key/basic measurements of our market:1.

I'm sharing this partly to vent, and partly to illustrate a point.  

But I still think enforcement is going to be tough, as the low compliance in other big markets illustrates.

Because the market value of the property has risen while Stephan’s NOI has not, the cap rate has dropped considerably to a less favorable 6.25% ($125,000 / $2 million = 0.0625 = 6.25%).Examples like this illustrate an important function of capitalization rates.

Since the other numbers in the OP come into question, I will make a possibly incorrect assumption here that the expected appraised value is wrong, just to illustrate why knowing that is so crucial. 

However, it also causes people to do what others are doing instead of doing what they ought to be doing - there is often a very large and very important difference.Let me illustrate by way of a simile...The way a lot of newbies want to start in REI is like getting a handful of lemons and standing on the street corner to sell  lemonade.

It's capable of doing Adobe Illustrator type stuff, but the difference is that it also has automatic dimensioning, which you need with technical drawings.  

His story and method are one of the best I've heard, illustrating one of my favorite types of investment deals (large commercial).