Unlike CA there is no Prop-13 cap on appraisals.  

You should set up a separate account for your cap x expenses and your annual vacancy rate. 

agree with the other comment, different markets are doing different things. also, "be greedy when others are fearful." what people might be afraid of is, lots of commercial ARMs coming up on their rate adjustments, & the new rates (compared to 5y ago when they first purchased) will kill their cashflow, so they'll sell, and if everyone is doing this at once, supply might outweigh demand, everyone has to sell for less than they planned, and everyone who hangs on to their similar properties gets to recalculate their estimated mkt value with the new going cap rates. i don't personally think this is going to cause as insane of a shift as some people do, but it's all speculative, we won't know til it happens. if you can find a deal that pencils with 30y fixed debt, do it. 

Original term is 15 years with a 1/1 adjustable variable rate based on Fed rates, no 5 year adjustment, no balloon, 2% annual cap.

John A. most have a number of agents that scrub the MLS, then they plug the numbers to look at yield and/or cap rate.

Hi,We bought a property last year thru an LLC and the previous owner was there for 2 years so he sold it with no capital gains. For various reasons, we are partnering with the previous owner again and adding him as a ...

This is overpriced at a best in place 4% cap rate.

You could do a 1031 into a DST, thats entirely passive.If you extract 10M equity equity and invest conservativley with a 5 CAP thats $500,000k a year in todays money.

The cap rate we are seeing have been about the same the last few years so the overall ROI is the same.  

Excess business losses are capped for single individuals at $250,000 and for married individuals at $500,000, with any surplus being suspended and carried forward.