What comes out is a glass of red koolaid with no ice, a dry piece of boneless chicken breast, grilled and slightly burnt, with white rice and a Brussel sprouts.

Due to how well she cares for the home, I really felt that this tenant was the icing on the cake of the deal.

Depending on balances it may be good to cash out now and could pay off smaller loan and still have less monthly payments with cash in your hockey afterwards.

I have some ice dam build up on my roof with a little bit of water damage as well as part of a roof that is sagging because of it.

It may just be icing on the cake. 

I had NO credit NO money as I got out of high school and just to add icing on top the big C had just started to spread..

I look at appreciation as icing on the cake.

He then had a different company come in to dig up the perimeter, AGAIN, to correct the weeping tile issues.The job is still not complete, in fact the siding is still missing with tattered plastic wrap barley holding back the snow, ice & rain.

Pop the hatch to the attic in the morning and if the North slope looks like shaved ice coating it, you know you have a problem

However, in a recent conversation with Home Union, a national turnkey-ish company, they stressed how important it is to invest in high-growth and "emerging markets," and said that I should accept cash-on-cash returns of ~4-5% in exchange for the higher long-term gains and reliability of tenants to pay rents in these growing areas.I am conflicted because everything I have read stresses cash flow so strongly and that appreciation is just "icing on the cake."