So, since comps with older appliances/dated interiors were going for ~$92,000, I assume I can safely predict maybe getting ~$95-97,000 for a home with a freshly painted interior/flooring and updated appliances?

"It's tough to make predictions, especially about the future" - Yogi BerraThere is NO reliable source for what any of these numbers are going to do in the future. 

All this is just to try to make a prediction before you really know what reality is going to be.

In most cases, your fitness function is going to be so non-predictive, and all you need is "good enough to be profitable and low-maintenance" not "the very best in the pool".2.

I guess no one could have predicted the housing price crash that happened. 

My prediction as far as REI goes is that there will be many fire sales in the A.C. housing market coming soon. 

I don’t think anyone can predict what interest rate conditions will be like in five years.

Can't predict the unknowns. 

There is no way to predict everything in this business, but if you do get a note that goes south, PPR will do their best to make good.  

@Ellis San JoseI think that points 1 and 2 are fairly self explanatory but I am also curious about getting them at the "right time".Do you have some way to predict to some extent when that is or just a realization that even when you hit the right person with the right message you still have to be fortuitious enough to have hit them at the right time as well?