Appreciation would be icing on the cake, but if you can count on good cash flow in a stable market, it seems like a safe way to go as time becomes a factor.

Once you're done with that, it's cake.  

NA Donnelly  cool thanks.. .I really liked his model and the Japenese tenant.. if I was looking for 10% return were appreciation was only icing on the cake..

Hard to have ALL the cake and eat it too.. 2) Reliable cleaner who can identify rule-breakinga) You need to pay for what you want.

I don't count on appreciation at all, but if it happens, that'd be icing on the cake!  

Many of the others (9flats, flip key etc.) are not worth the extra effort when focusing on a chosen few, that bring home most of the cake (80/20).

As icing on the cake, the power levels are now low enough that a PV solar system would be around $11k, versus the $30K needed to power that old, inefficient pig of a building completely.  

Talk about having your cake - and eating it too!

I want the properties and the high interest is merely icing on the cake for me.

This really takes the cake!