@Sam P. is it flat or shingled?

the market is no longer helping as price are flat - high but flat. 

Does the local knowledge and contact base in a flat market outweigh the possible gains to be had in a growing market?

I'm a broker in Oregon and Washington, and I'm trying to wrap my head around wholesaling. Please point me in the right direction of a post that answers this, or chime in. These are the steps, as I understand them:1. I...

Becaue direct ownership we could have control with fixed rate debt that's guaranteed by gov, our asset would usually flat or going up/stable, since it's controllable it's more like 'passive'. single family residential is not valued by the movement of cap rate, but it's valued by the real market supply-demand metrics.in all my direct asset everything is going up with scale of 20-40% IRR, so all these naives LP investors are just being fooled so much by the most teaching in real estate and they're not unable to decipher whether what they learnt is accurate or not. 

And there is a big difference between a German duplex and a Polish Flat - the polish basically moved in their own basement and rented out their house.

this is just another reason to use a Realtor….or atminimum use a flat fee service so it gets syndicated out to all the sites. 

In addition to the response above, any excess losses incurred can be used to offset other similar types of passive income. 

This is for my mom, who has been a snow bird in Port Richy, FL at this property for a little over 6 months each year for the last 6 years, but still maintains Pennsylvania residence status.

I own and self-manage a property that recently had two drip valves break causing excessive water usage for January, February and March.