For anyone wondering how they determined these rankings, the full article is here:https://wallethub.com/edu/best-cities-for-renters/...Quality of Life – Total Points: 40City Satisfaction Ranking: Full Weight (~5.71 Points)Job Market: Full Weight (~5.71 Points)Note: This metric is based on WalletHub’s “Best & Worst Cities for Jobs” ranking.Driver-Friendliness: Half Weight (~2.86 Points)Note: This metric is based on WalletHub’s “Best & Worst Cities to Drive in” ranking.Recreation-Friendliness: Full Weight (~5.71 Points)Note: This metric is based on WalletHub’s “Best & Worst Cities for Recreation” ranking.Weather: Half Weight (~2.86 Points)Note: This metric is based on WalletHub’s “Cities with the Best & Worst Weather” ranking.Quality of Public School System: Half Weight (~2.86 Points)Note: This metric is based on GreatSchools.org’s ratings of U.S. public school systems.Safety: Double Weight (~11.43 Points)Note: This metric measures the violent- and property-crime rates.Presence of State Bedbug Laws: Half Weight (~2.86 Points)Note: This binary metric measures the presence or absence of bedbug laws in the state.

Has anyone used HedgeStreet Exchange binary real estate contracts?

If they accept, I arrange to meet with them and either sign the lease, collect the full deposit and one months rent in cash and give them the keys, or sign the nonrefundable hold deposit form and collect the deposit, in cash.Screening is a binary decision.

I wish things were simple and binary, black and white, insurance or LLC.

That's just the normal my-way-or-the-highway binary talk on BP.For many value add investors, selling and redeploying capital into the next project maximizes IRR. 

They capture uncertainty around purchase price, the rehab costs, the rental cash flow (above), and the refinancing.To get complicated, you can use Bernoulli variables to model the likelihood of a binary result (if a tenant will leave in a specific year, if the zoning board will approve a particular project etc) and account for that in the cost.I mentioned above that I don’t model the SEQUENCE of major repair events and whether that major roof repair will happen in a given year (but you can using Bernoulli variables if you wanted)… Instead I account for that next major roof repair by setting aside reserves and maintenance funds.

Multifamily syndications offer a way to enjoy income, and syndicators can elect to 'wait it out' for favorable market conditions, if need be.5.Inflation creates greater rental demand, in a non-binary fashion.

While this is the goal, the results of attempts to limit legal liability are on a spectrum instead of binary. 

This is not an either/or binary decision.  

There is no definitive number but am told $100k and lower the better the chances.Note that a “win” is not necessarily binary... often you end up in a situation where you don’t get it reassessed at the purchase price but are met somewhere in between (like half way).