And that scale continues to shift further as our society makes people believe to be successful you need to get a college degree in a white collar career path.

The properties are now worth 850k and 1.05m a little over a year after I sold them...I purchased the single family home last year a after looking at school districts and realizing that with 1 kid and one on the way I needed to shift.

Also, if the market shifts, and it no longer makes sense as a vacation rental, make sure you have an exit strategy in place.

They shifted to doing pools from my understanding.  

To your point about agents setting themselves apart for sellers, I've been thinking about shifting the emphasis of my marketing that way.

._______________________________________- In the book Shift by Gary Keller of Keller Williams, published I think in 2009 just after the crash, he talked in chapter 10 called creative financing.I’ll paraphrase:Real estate agents to do well have to work much harder to get a listing appointment, because credit is now very difficult.If real estate agents learned this business and were trained from 2002 to 2008,-when credit was terribly easy,-liar loans were available,-100% of value with no money down,then they didn’t need to learn how to do creative financing.Like Gary Keller, I started in real estate in the early 80s when interest rates were well over 10% for mortgages.I do a lot of wraparound mortgages and contract for deed purchases, because getting financing was almost impossible.The point of the creative financing chapter is this:As an agent, you need to be very creative in this credit strangled market.As a real estate investor, you need to make money with every lead.So let’s talk about an example:__________a pretty house quiet street, owes 95,000, comps come in at 100The days are gone when you can overprice the house and do a price reduction.The $100K house will sit there for months and months if it’s overpriced.If you really care about the seller having some success about fixing their house problem, you need to talk about selling on terms and selling on cash.

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I debated it in a multi as I was looking to cost shift to the tenants but the install cost is high and not sure if you would need more of an electric upgrade.

If any tenants roll you catch the uptrend for rent growth.As for cycle shifts you put long term 10 year commercial debt on a project with 25% down.