For example maybe the issue is not that the landlord is keeping rents artificially low but that walking on the living room floor is like walking on a boat and there's significant functional obsolescence throughout the assetLandlords do often keep their rents artificially low, but if you were a lender you would agree that someone throwing good money away is also a little insane and potentially suspect.So these are just a few of the reasons that you and/or your lenders and investors are forced to value your target property on how the property is actually currently performing.On the other hand, as opposed to doing a single valuation you should be doing a full pro forma.

We have artificially inflated prices, in most of the areas with cash sales to out-of-state folks, or local cash buyers.

If you look at real wage growth, or lack thereof, it becomes obvious that this recent rising of real estate prices is a result of something other than real wage growth, which implies prices are artificially high again.

You may be able to offer cash for keys.Don't forget that the starting prices in online auctions are usually artificially low to attract bidders.

Very smart of you to be learning alternative ways to secure your financial future, as medicine is certainly changing.  

Prob the only place besides D class areas where you can see 2% rule.Btw, I'm born and raised in Sacramento, but came out here for a lucrative career in medicine.

In such cases, the veteran's 0% down purchasing power is indeed artificially constrained by the loan limits. 

In that instance, if the cap rate stays the same, the calculated value will be artificially lower than the market value so how did you model or bake-in this market appreciation into say a 5 or 10 yr model?

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Tell Lars that Chris Mason sent you.http://larsghanssoncpa.com/ When his office and mine get conspiratorial with the goal of boosing purchasing power of a self employed person a tax filing or two out because someone's purchasing power is artificially constrained by stupid mortgage guidelines, amazing things happen.