What's super interesting about this argument, James, is that Minneapolis is actually much more violent as a city, than San Francisco.

Super helpful!

Super easy and I never had to meet him. 

Quote from @Mark Wooldridge: A super concise and accurate summation of the SFR & MF property market - only thing I could add to that is how extremely low interest rates (historically) caused valuations to increase at a faster rate than they would have otherwise. 

As far as the appraisal discrepancy, it doesn't sound super egregious considering you didn't do any work to the property.

Rules are super landlord-friendly and we see positive cash flowing deals with lots of potential for appreciation.

I know it’s not a super helpful comment for your end goal but my wife and I are looking for a second rental in Virginia Beach if you were interested in freeing up some funds for your Pittsburgh expansion.

Investing where family lives is super interesting.

For context, downtown Alexandria performs super well as a rental market and bringing in $5.5k+ as the monthly rental income if you choose to move out of the househack in the future will be absolutely feasible (depending on the property of course).

And I have only GC ,d one project one couple mil spec home everything else I hire a GC.. who is really a site super..