My philosophy is if you buy right and are conservative with your numbers, what happens to the market on a macro level is less important because you have protected yourself against a potential "crash".

I'm a conservative investor, so these high cap rate cities are not something that I've been looking at due to the increased risk if we have a serious downturn. 2) Wait or buy now?

I am in the process of making an offer so just want to get a ball-park number even higher price it will be ok, so I can make a conservative estimation, because this property may go fast.

We're very conservative with our spending, as in we spend virtually nothing on ourselves.

Everybody and their brother wants to do flips....those who haven’t done them before have unrealistic expectations of profit potential or are too conservative in their numbers in order to be competitive.

I will screen them, convert to our new lease agreement and approach the rent increase conservatively and on a case by case basis.

Have a detailed business plan and conservative analysis of the asset.

Until you know the norms for each property I like staying more conservative.  

Here's the number.4 bedroom, 2 bath, 1920 sqftComps give me a conservative 250k ARV, in the last 6 months, within a .50 mi radius.

Always be conservative with your numbers (lower income and higher expenses).