When you are at your kid's football practice, I am too, sometimes but I am on that phone so that the owner is not.  

I first learned about REI about 3 months ago when I was playing football at the University of Sioux Falls in South Dakota.

, and football "GO COWBOYS!"

@Christopher Blanco, I don't wish to cast aspersions on the Cleveland area, but our football team won the Super Bowl last year...

I teach business and coach football and basketball at the high school level full time.

Sadly I'm not the real Johnny football. I

Purchase price: 760k Selling Price: 850k Fantasy: I just made a killing, and am a real estate genius Reality: Net profit - 2k.  

That is purely fantasy land and speculative and it will go down again and those flippers could stand to lose a ton of money.

I enjoy football, basketball, MMA, Boxing and Jiu Jitsu.  

Appreciation is fantasy until accessed and can disappear in a heart beat.Unless your actual rental income is sufficient enough to cover the cost of paying a return on the equity on a monthly bases it simply does not exist and only creates negative value in a rental property.Investors that confuse appreciation with cash flow or return on investment are living in a fantasy world.