Note that this is not appreciation, it is just your hard asset retaining it's value while the money is only worth half of what it used to be.Say you then did a tax and cost free exchange of a carbon copy house across the street.

A good friend of mine has a house in Carbon county and we frequently go there for long weekends.

. :)The Seattle area has been white-hot as far as rising home prices go, great news for the savvy flipper or talented wholesaler, not so great news if you're into traditional buy-hold investing as home prices have far outstripped the ability of rents to keep up.If you're looking for an informal meet-up to attend, @Troy Fisher and @Tiffany Plovie run a great series of get togethers in Kirkland/Seattle while their colleague @Kevin Carbon is passing the torch down in Tacoma-Lakewood.Cheers and good luck!

I have security monitoring through a company  that uses the Qolsys IQ Panel in conjunction with Alarm.com, and this works as a Z-wave hub for multiple products including security, wifi thermostats, electronic locks, lights, smoke detectors, carbon monoxide, freeze detectors, and more in the future I'm sure.

Due to the rent of $5700 you are expecting $1710 in monthly expenses, but an exact carbon copy house in the Midwest will only anticipate $500 for monthly expenses.

This property is in Carbon County, PA.

@Kevin Carbon

They did not install any carbon or smoke detectors. 

Here is a link for all the details. http://www.meetup.com/PacificNWRealEstate/If you can't make that one, we have it every 3rd Monday of the month.Best regards Kevin Carbon

The owner of a duplex is facing a number of charges following a fatal fire over the weekend.Under the fire code the landlord is facing two charges for not having proper smoke detectors and two charges for failing to have proper carbon monoxide detectors.He’s also facing a charge for improper fire separation and another charge relating to self-door closers not operating.A woman died of smoke inhalation Saturday morning at 395 Curry Ave.