Agents are going to make more money per time with less hassle then speculating a flip and dealing with the unknowns of a flip.

I'm looking at taking the leap over the Ben Franklin bridge and adding a bit of speculation to my portfolio by buying in Camden, NJ.

I am looking at 10% in my market, but that is with a fair purchase price (no bidding war, over speculation, etc.) and self-management.

Even if you don't need your investment to put food on the table, you want those solid assets that will make you solid, worry free returns while you speculate or work on longer-term deals (value add, developments, syndications with rehabs, etc.). 

Some speculate its caused by fracking/drilling activity in the Barnett shale that sits below North Texas.

I can address more specifically described property types with basic goals.....are you speculating, want existing buildings or build to suit, any owner occupied aspect, any specific industry, long term hold or what?

So, the question then is are you speculating by assuming the same 40 year average rates of appreciation and rent increases?

This probably wouldn't work for USMC bases that I was at, where permanent wartime deployment tempos is the norm even if there aren't any wars on, but by contrast many of those Army units just stay in Kentucky of Texas for a decade at a time until a war breaks out, meaning (one would predict) housing demand goes down when wars go up, and comes back up when wars wind down.Again, I wasn't smart enough to be doing this while still in, so this is speculation.

Concept is purely political speculation - - spend your time looking for deals.

We are pretty overheated and if the tech market slows down, there will be a drop in speculative energy.