I've never seen them artificially bid up a property that I've also have clients bid on, so I'm not sure about that.  4)  Usually it takes a few days. 

Personally I'm not a huge fan of the FundRise marketing/structure because of the way they artificially inflate returns in the 1st 2 years by diluting investor returns later.

It seems totally artificial and I don't understand how people aren't recognizing this.

Yes, we had a tenant say a vendor swiped medicine.

Keep those artificial restrictions coming!

What cash is doing is buying artificial cash flow at a very high price.When analysing a investment property if it does not produce positive cash flow with a hypothetical 100% financing scenario it will never produce true positive cash flow due to the  high opportunity value of cash.

I recently bought a property near Atlanta doing lot of analytics and data related research myself (didn't just go with what some website told me that xyz is the hot market)  - Not sure if I am right or wrong about the market yet but the whole process of getting a tenant and PM was daunting especially since I'm out of state and BP folks have been wonderful and have learned a lot from the folks here - Thanks again to all of you)Back to this topic:  The idea of positive cash flow since I closed my first OOS investment property has stuck my mind and I have been following lot of topics on where to invest and sometimes artificial social proof that people say I have 10 units planning to by X more makes you believe that you have to buy more. 

The degree of difficulty of your major is important too, there are certain professions that require difficult classes, medicine, law, engineering and finance come to mind.

Doctors are literally seeing people via phones and tablets nowadays, even prescribing medicine.

I'm of the opinion that the rate hike is a positive thing overall, as it's better to do it now and take our medicine.