I would assume this was his justification for fixing one over the other.

I think these are mental justifications by tire kickers not to do anything.

Yes absolutely agree on the logistics and justification behind these price hikes and agree overall market is trending upward which might hopefully like you mentioned also mean higher appraisal cost at the end of the day. 

Cool, cool.If you need justification for how I possibly could have come across this post innocently after 8 months....  

Account Closed  That's correct -- the broker (who also owns the property management company) had full access to actual operating data but chose to omit these larger expenditures with the justification that they were non-recurring and therefore wouldn't be representative of future operating costs. 

I was just posting on another board to someone who had 5k savings and wanted to buy 5-12 doors that they better have good reserves to account for repairs and vacancies.It seems like a price sensitive market - so yes, renovating the roof is just the cost of doing business as opposed to a justification for raising rent (new roof!

So, a contrarian view - prices are "down" if you look at divergence from the long term average appreciation (which here in Seattle is 5.5%), not just if they drop in absolute terms YoY.

It's hard to comment one way or the other on this without seeing justification.

You easily enough could have said "huh, well look at that" but no, you take a FALSE statement and double down with a ridiculous justification that a toddler would wince at and say "really, come on man, really". 

That’s a slippery slope and similar to the justification used by some of the worst tyrants in the last century.