and I want to do some real life illustrations using members of the BP community, rather than just focusing on my stuff. 

We walk around too and share stories to illustrate some of the important points we want the tenants to remember.

An appraisal is a much more detailed report which illustrates rental rates, comparable sales, and cost data within the area.

You have more cash to reinvest in other deals so you could potentially match your cash.Easy numbers to illustrate pointHouse cost - 100k produces -$ 200 or $1000 and 20k down So your friends put 100k down he makes more than you $200 versus $1000On the other hand you only put 20k down, you have the same 100k you buy 5 houses So now you have5 houses $500k value 100k down 1k cash "plus" you have principle paid down ! 

I left the last sentence in that quote to illustrate the paradox of that post ...Bill has done a more thorough job of finding and identifying the flaws, but I wanted to show the specific statements that support that conclusion.

I know that every market is different and our markets, Dallas and Memphis, are unique in a lot of ways, but I wanted to share a recent bid that we won to illustrate being consistent.

For those that it does impact, it typically has a very small impact in the overall returns of the investment.I would be willing to walk you through a more detailed financial statement to illustrate the point further if interested.

Not sure I buy these numbers, but it does illustrate that cash flow markets are pretty widespread.http://www.numbeo.com/property-investment/rankings.jspCertianly, there is a lot more investor competition for the brick rancher REOs/SS's in the burbs, and prices are rising.

That information will make a nice "informative" letter to people who are going through the foreclosure process and hopefully illustrate to them the importance of doing something opposed to sticking their heads in the sand and letting the house go through the entire foreclosure process.

I'm not illustrating a castle in the ghetto, just properties that were thoroughly rehabbed with the goal of needing less maintenance over time.