With any real estate deal, there are a lot of areas that need to be investigated one way or another, and you're always opening yourself up to a tad more risk when you don't thoroughly understanding what you're investing in (though that risk can be significantly minimized).

That's enough for me to know if I want to investigate further or not.

I was a little pissed when I learned that my Realtor - a dual representation situation - didn't clue me into the fact that I should investigate the HOA before deciding.

You should investigate traditional financing more.

:)That works for me, I'm a mortgage processor today, tomorrow I'll be an investigator, but only in the morning, later I'll be on call to render first aid to swimmers at the lake as an emergency technician.

They asked us who we recommended in the area for PM and we did a little investigating and sadly couldn't recommend any of them as we wouldn't use any of them ourselves.

I tried to put together a spreadsheet for some combos on the market now and I think your'e right : people seems to count on the appreciation but well, it works until the bubble burst and then it's hell...I will continue to investigate investing in France or waiting for the bubble to burst and mabye act...

When I investigated I discovered that if he didn't evict, my lease would be whatever the tenants told me it was!

You're investigating for sloppy crap rehab work vs. the right way.

@Troy Fisher Hi Troy....thanks much for the recommendations on cities to investigate.