Obviously I down trend is not good.

Using the money in your LLC's bank account to buy yourself a pair of sneakers or pay your personal electric bill can make your corporate veil easier for a plaintiff's attorney to "pierce".

A trend I have noticed though is that a lot of folks will get back to me the week of the auction because they fell out of contract with another investor, or just dragged their feet until the last hour of the last day and it turns into a crazy scrmable to postpone the auction.

It has always been steady and stable, never been trendy or hyped up nor has it crashed, always a solid neighborhood and low crime.

Durham is now a trendy area and the home prices reflect it. 

@Mike D'Arrigo I like that trend.  I

At least in Chicago there is not cheap rental alternatives in safe/trendy neighborhoods.

I do have access to raw MLS data and if I divide the house based on price average, you wuld see different trend, I think my chart metholody is even more accurate than Zillow's.

Is this the start of a new trend?I

The property is in a very trendy area of LA and both units should be easy to rent out.