Is the local RE market as hair-on-fire crazy as Greater Seattle?

@Curtis Bowery, not to split hairs, but I would consider 6 years medium term.

For those newer to the space make sure to do plenty of die diligence on assets as over the past several months there has been an above average amount of assets out there that have a lot of hair which I would not recommend and some even hold negative value.There are still decent assets out there as well, but make sure you pick through the bad to find the good.

I figure that's a fair buffer (the 0% appreciation/rent increase) but most have sub $100 cash flow if not a hair negative. 

So one can "cut their own hair" and be responsible for the consequences of not looking so good as an alternative to going to a barber and having them cut  hair professionally. 

Getting that curly W is super for motivation.You might also consider adding Land Trust to your toolbox as a means to improve anonymity and for ease of transfer since you can simply assign beneficial interest. 

I used to use them back in the day on all my 'hairy' deals (and almost all of my first deals had serious hair)

If your contract states that a certain outcome is expected,  such as house trim painted (rather than house trim will be painted with a horse hair brush with two  coats of paint with brush strokes in both horizontal and vertical direction)  and a general time schedule, such as completed by a certain date (rather than will work 8 am to 3 pm Mon through Fri) then you have a better chance of saying the person is a contractor or independent business rather than an employee.Think of how you deal with a plumber--The toilet is clogged. 

ME, a silly ape with a big mouth with an ego from hell, a cute butt sure, and crazy hair, but with no formal SEO knowledge other than that I developed myself which Google seems to be loving to no end!

There can also be something caught in the trap, like hair, that can then catch all of that too and stink.