Add to that the fact that some leases restrict the amount rent can be increased each time, and the leases themselves depress market rent.  

Flip #1 was a success at 19k profit, flip #2 broke even (depressed about that but I'll get around to writing about it someday), and here we are at flip #3.

MY BEGINNINGAs you know, the FX took a toll on my mom, she went into depression.

It's economically depressed but stabilizing, rents are climbing to a bit over half what they are in Asheville, and there are distressed sellers there who aren't getting multiple offers on their property.

This has depressed RE in that market as supply / demand equalize.

I see counties where I know housing prices are still pretty depressed but I'm surprised to see wage growth is up.

The thing is, there are so many cheap places to live just a few miles outside of the city center (Brewer, Orono, Old Town), and a lot of those areas are very depressed right now, so prices aren't very stable.

Scumbag losers who refuse to watch and change their toddlers diapers, making all the tenants who are not losers feel depressed watching you spend more time getting with your new new dirtbag boyfriends opposed to making sure your child is bathed and fed need not apply! 

His health wasn’t great and from what I can hear over the phone he was depressed.

Look the best ROI is going to be in the Midwest in depressed c or d class neighborhoods.