It also helps to increase productivity and decrease feeling of isolation.

The property is rehabbed and looks good, why not have your agent or another agent specializing in rental management take over and do all the work leaving you without the time commitment, just the positive cash flow.I sort of see your agents logic, the foreclosures have torn apart certain areas and have decreased the values of ALL properties there.

Decreased or increased rents?

I'm also assuming 92% occupancy, and if occupancy decrease, I'm out the bill.

But as affordability decreases, the opposite tends to happen.So I'm not sure if we are in a bubble as lending has been the safest it's been in a very long time.

It has steadily decreased month by month to where it sits now at $169,000.

Now, the thing is, should we choose to invest this chunk of cash into a Texas or Midwest property, which none of us know anything about those areas, it would seem according to multiple sources that our ROI yields roughly the same numbers, in either the flip scenario or buy and hold, but...We end up with a much nicer home in a better neighborhood cashflowing about the same on a property we can pay off in two years just or less (40-60k properties) that have a much slower appreciation, but obviously better income once paid off.ORWe flip a house using way less financing, and inevitably decrease the risk of a flip gone wrong.That's our 20k dollar debate.

There's some potential to also increase the rents and decrease the expenses.Does anyone know how costly and/or difficult it is to separate utilities?

**Edit: I just realized it is actually decreasing your cashflow...

It may diminish the value of his brand and decrease his other property values.