Anything resembling a pattern, run for the hills.http://www.nmlsconsumeraccess.org/ Same sort of thing for realtors.

It gives the upgrade appearance and some patterns look like marble or granite.Vinyl planks are nice but in a  building common area in NYC its the "wish i had real hardwood" look.  

I've checked the booking between these two cities has a different booking pattern.

If it can be classified as investment, then income / profit falls under capital gains.Once you start the rehab, and sell within a short time, then it more likely will appear as inventory rather than investment; this is more of a gray area than the first scenario I outlined - you might reasonably be able to justify that this was not inventory if your past dealings were all held rather than just sold, and this one sale for profit is just an anomaly rather than the pattern.

Thanks again.I brought it up because I thought I was noticing a pattern while analyzing deals, wanted to see if anyone else observed it as well.Of course I realize the difference between ARV and Assessed wouldn't give an EXACT estimate of repairs, but was thinking maybe it was a good starting point for further analysis.For example, if a property's ARV and Assessed are very far apart I was thinking it might indicate that the property needs a lot of work...and vice verse if the ARV and Assessed are very close together.Is there any logic behind my train of thought in your opinion?

Hey BP community I have been asking around at some investor meetings trying to find a pattern in the initial thought process when choosing a market,I have obtained some great info here in Ontario Canada.

Also, are there any patterns or trends?

We never say why we are increasing the rent because we don’t want to establish a pattern of justifying our actions.

and let me state my disclaimer, I am in no way saying I don’t learn from the investors who do come on but it’s just a pattern I noticed.

Congress Heights and those other parts of EOTR (east of the river) DC are not part of my traffic patterns so I am not as familiar with them.