That's why I concluded with get multiple quotes, compare them, ask for previous work examples and a breakdown of the work.

@Jay HinrichsYeah, that’s what I’ve been concluding since starting to get into it.

If you were to calculate the compounded appreciation at the bottom of the market, it would look even worse.Since we just concluded a few strong years, I think you should forecast below average appreciation in the coming years and see how it affects your calculations.  

The second investor who bought it in 1990 for $300K, sold it for $275K in 1993, the market bottom, also losing $100K after letting his son living there rent free to manage the place.I concluded listing it higher doesn't always work.

I of course have to mention appreciation in Greensboro, looks like the average annual appreciation rate is sitting around 2.79% since 2000.To conclude Greensboro is considered "Mini-Charlotte" for a reason.

"comfortable".The Rich have long known about and utilized 1031 Exchanging as a very effective real estate wealth building strategy and lifetime income producing Tax Tool.I will conclude with a quote from a famous American Judge, Learned hand."

Ultimately I couldn't agree with you more about your concluding statement, being secure and smart with your investments.How did you go from that story to being an active investor?

We discussed this and concluded that engineering school and project engineering introduces the concept of taking a large problem breaking it into "bite-sized" pieces that can be easily accomplished.

@Jay Norlund @here,  It's been a few years since your original post, but I'm wondering if you or anyone concluded with ADU success in Pheonix and if you could impart any knowledge on your findings. 

We can also conclude that when your money worth more then another countries money, in some aspect you have more incentive to invest in wealth creation entities such as Real Estate When the economy give the people opportunity to invest we come in a situation where the Netherlands people can easily come here and buy property and hold it for second home or rent it out with their own people that come to vacation.