That is speculating and not investing.Numbers work going in and the rest is icing on the cake if it happens and if not you hit your goals anyway.It seems the primary reason you are buying is for a home for the family to live in so the investment portion seems like a much less important detail than the emotional component from what you have said so far.Maybe just view this property as a happy family home purchase and then if you like the area once you live there look around for properties where you buy just off of investment from the additional cash flow with the low mortgage payment.

- Don't know rates in CA but $225 for a 18 cu ft top mount fridge, no cold water or ice maker, less ~5 years old with a 60 day warranty in Cleveland is not badAre you going to be keeping the fridge and they are contributing to upgrade what they get or are they keeping the fridge if they move out and you are contributing from the goodness of your heart?

Columbus has a professional soccer and hockey team.  

Give those signs a call - ASK THEM this question in a considerate way after you break the ice a bit with them, Approach it one of two ways:1.

@Emin T. wroteBut on the average the errors might even out.If you had one foot in ice water and one foot in boiling water "On Average" you would be quite comfortable.Evaluating a markets potential growth is a complex subject.

The icing on the cake is that a lot of vinyl floors are comprised of recycled materials and are completely recyclable themselves.

But you are buying your home to live and enjoy and any investment potential is icing on the cake.Good luck

Surely, these are benefits you and other readers already know, and the icing on the cake, of course, is market appreciation.

I just have no clue how to break the ice to land my first deal.

Cash flow is simply the icing on the cake.