I personally would never buy an investment house that did not produce positive cash flow.

Oakland's worst areas long term, in terms of appreciation will IMO produce far more wealth than properties in Indiana and many other parts of the country.

I'm of the opinion that cheap debt on cashflow producing properties is the best hedge against inflation and therefore it is a good time to evaluate your equity in each property and whether or not to apply more leverage.

Most of the LOI's and Offers being produced these days look like Ernie and Bert wrote them.

I can consider being a little more aggressive with a 401K as I have a defined benefit vested pension as well.Personally I wouldn't do it for a flip, but would consider it for a dividend producing (i.e rental income) property I would hold.I also wouldn't cash the whole thing out.

You can flip when you need to produce cash to buy properties cash or fund additional rentals.

They supposedly have been living somewhere for 1 year and produced a letter from their landlord singing their praises of what great tenants they are  (which we all know anyone could have written). 

Raise the money and then cash everyone out in 3-5 years when it is up and running and producing your target returns. 

But something must have happened in the market to change the returns DSTs are producing.

What do you think the best possible experience an investor can have that reduces the "sifting through sooo much information" problem, quickly plugs them into a model such as one you've built and ultimately produces a transaction?