North Person street is becoming it’s own little community with bars, restaurants, coffee, ice cream.

Just trying to see these deals better Well  You need to make cash flow appreciation is icing on the cake but not something I’d base my purchase on .

That's a question for your attorney.Whether to keep or sell is always kind of a funny question on forums like this because it's like asking us if you should get chocolate or vanilla ice cream for dessert.

Mac Dade Blvd and Chester Pike were never great, but now you've got tattoo parlors (nothing wrong with tattoos) and vape shops on these roads and many of the duplexes are near these locations.  

This time of year the last two years its gotten ice damning that has caused the ceiling to leak.

For loan purposes, my cash flow numbers have regular rental assumptions, STR cash flow is icing on the cake for me, of course in Nola it can be a whole lot of icing, so it's part of my approach at this point.

If you Get appreciation that Is Icing on the cake .

Light switches in cream, next to light switches in white.

All of my tenants are responsible for yard care and snow/ice removal.

What I sold were my under performers that I no longer planned to hold long term, and they were in a Roth IRA, so no taxes, but I'm letting my winners ride ... also, in general I like to live and invest counter-cyclically ... that means buying more when everybody else is selling or foreclosing, but not necessarily selling when everybody else is buying due to concerns mentioned above, and it also means being conservative and deleveraging in a hot market, while getting more aggressive and leveraging up in an ice cold market ... this is easier said than done.Finally, the hotter the market, the higher the market risk and the shorter the holding period I therefore generally want on my new acquisitions.