It's a two way street.For me personally, going by once a month to do an AC filter change, and my lawn guy going twice a month to do yard work, plus any other on demand maintenance visits, combined to give me a fairly good pulse of what's going on without any perceived intrusion to my tenants.

Got it, I guess it depends on what you perceive as the greater risk, property damage or rent collection.

They were talking about paint colors and how things made them feel and I was talking about cost per sq foot and the value of the property, so there was a disconnect in how we perceived the buying process. 

So, you should plan when to start the rehab based on your perceived risk and your risk tolerance. 3.

In this case, every interaction with an appraiser is a negotiation of the (perceived or real) value of your property and the perceived integrity of you and your business as an investor.

While not a huge number, it may be a too distressed market because of the perceived infrastructure issues.Thanks,Rob Williford

Don't promote properties at meetups because it's perceived as a desperate method.

Areas with cheap properties and good initial rent to purchase ratio typically are so because they are not expected to have poor appreciation or they have something that makes them perceived to be high risk. 

At the end of the day, investing is not about SCALING but about maximizing the financial return on your money relative to the perceived risk.I don't know your current portfolio or asset, but as others noted, you need to really run the numbers on that sale.  

Otherwise, there are still decent flips in this market with rates the way that they are.As for the volatility/crash potential, there are people who get paid A LOT more than me trying to guess that, but I think in the end, that is why we do real estate instead of solely stocks, etc. because of the perceived 'stability' of real estate.