I could establish security measures for these homes such as alarm systems and upgraded windows and doors to minimize burglary and offer tenants more peace of mind.

(and of course jobs and stocks related also..)Stock Market and Silicon Valley RE PricesIt will be interesting to see if the recent pullback in stock prices has a measurable impact on home price appreciation when the Spring comes back around. 

Does anyone know if this violates any kind of renters rights to take away his security deposit as more of a punitive measure than a recovery of actual loss?  

They took some measurements, he was talking the talk and walking the walk so, lets give him a shot. 

The main principles being A. don't measure success or failure based on making money, base it on making the mathematically correct decision  B. know the numbers and probabilities, there's no such thing as certainty and C.  

TRY AGAIN:  GRM is PP/CSI or GSI * GRM = PP :sigh:If you're fractionalizing any of the numbers, you are estimating, not measuring.

The murmoring of doomsday predictors is on the uptick, if that's a measure you place value in.So, medical career in a boom/bust town.

I will cover each of the above criteria below as they apply to Las Vegas.The Problem with ROIROI and similar measurements only show how a property is likely to perform today but real estate investing is a long term proposition.

I still own one of them.I'd really like to learn the ropes of finding and analyzing real estate investment properties for their cash flow and other profitable measures.

Leasing agents not attempting to retain existing commercial tenants,owners/agents milking every cent possible from a lease and actually driving business outCommercial vacancies is a sure sign of declining economy, lost jobs and subsequent home foreclosures . . . its a good measure of the community economic health.