Especially if you go gas and gas prices spike. 

I have my own property management business and have seen a spike in high end rental inquiries in my area.

Hopefully he can't prove a big spike in water us usage during your rehab.

There would be spikes for vacancies/make readies, but some months would be really quiet. 

With how prices have spiked back up, I would take my time and try to find a deal off the MLS.

My insurance policies on rental properties have seen a big spike in premiums recently.

We monitor usage (a spike can indicate a water leak or the move-in of unauthorized tenants) We watch to make sure the tenants are paying their bill.ELECTRIC: Separately metered.

The primary, if not only, reason there has been a brief spike in subsidized demand for housing in recent months (2012), has been the GSE/FHFA endorsed REO-To-Rental plan, and associated securitization conduits, in which large asset managers have been encouraged to take advantage of government funded, risk-free financing (and entirely bypassing banks who have given up on loan origination due to legacy liability issues which have every bank tied up in litigation from now until Feddom come - just see today's Bank of America results) and purchase foreclosed properties in bulk, with the intention of converting them into rental properties.http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2012-10-17/och-ziff-calls-top-reo-rental-exit-landlord-businessIt is no secret that in addition to the well-known phenomenon of "foreclosure stuffing", one of the primary drivers of the artificial housing "recovery" has been the surge of hedge funds and asset managers into purchases of rental units courtesy of near-zero cost REO-to-rent federal lending facilities, which have taken out distressed inventory from the market in hopes of converting it into rental.

But, in some markets, it will be more volatile, you will see spikes up and down.I don't plan to buy in the US until at least late 2015 unless there are some dramatic changes.As for the foreign money flowing in, that has already happened and will continue.

If these inventory levels as described in the report stay low and there aren't any drastic spikes in interest rates like late last summer, 2014 looks good for flippers like me.