Broken down into 8 townships: Aptos, Ben Lomond, Boulder Creek, Capitola, Felton, Santa Cruz, Scotts Valley, Soquel, and Watsonville....ice to List ratio. 

Of course, appreciation is icing on the cake in most areas of the country. 

It doesn’t necessarily mean your house is worth more, but to the right buyer it might be the icing on the cake that gets you a better price.

Paint: I use the same colors everywhere: All Behr Marquee: Ceilings = basic 001 flat white - Baseboard, crown and trim = Swiss coffee, satin or eggshell - Walls = common areas a light cream (coconut), bedrooms a medium brown  (caramel)4.)

My first order of priority is cash flow since appreciation is some thing that is icing on the cake but you cannot expect it.

What's next - complaining the ice is melting only to realize the tenant is storing the ice in the sink?

As I have transitioned into wholesaling I have come to realize that it isn't all peaches and cream, and is actually very hard.

Tell me about it Mike... its nuts lately.I have many qualified borrowers Im working with that have a hard time right now.I've been adjusting pre-approval letters on each offer with RE agents to submit and still no acceptance.The sellers just have a lot of choices to pick the cream of the crop.The good thing about the market is it allows sellers to unload (as an investor) their properties at a top tier price.For the buyer/borrower it sucks since its frustrating offer after another.As a banker its frustrating because sometimes we enter escrow then we fall out because of entering escrow at a price too high to appraise for and then we're back to offer after offer to try to get back into escrow.With each challenge there is opportunity though.

Ice, vinegar, lemon peels, bleach treatment for garbage disposer.Inspect septic tank if you have one.Ceiling light fixtures and fans probably have dead mosquitoes and other bugs up there, clean that glass shade or at least use a compressed air canister to blow them out.

But for me, it separates the cream from the crop...