When its time to sell then colors and looking trendy is important not so much for renting.

Something being trendy/fashionable in the moment is not always what leads to the upward trend you allude to.I think the key is innovation. 

I'm going to tell you the same thing I tell everyone when they utter the phrase "no lease."

I used BP calculators to run numbers as a Fix and Flip and as a Buy and Hold, with both cash and conventional financing in the interest of multiple exit strategies.Quick details:Property is a SFH in a trendy neighborhood, three of the homes for sale within a 5 minute walk are flipped homes.Property has 3 beds and 1 bath.

@Charlie MacPherson a lot of people teach those "trigger" words and phrases but I haven't seen anything in writing from HUD that bans them.

I like that phrase “civilian sellers” - good way to put it, @Jay Hinrichs

That's a very odd phrasing in order to obscure the facts.

Some of your phrasing cause me as a reader to think you aren't necessarily sure in what you do.

Look at either the stock market or housing over a long run and the trend is up for both.

Sure there are blips during recessions, but the overall trend is upward.