Although there are numerous safeguards, contracts, escrows, that can be used to mitigate the additional risk, that risk can not be eliminated.

Second is the ongoing rental stream.You will always "numerically" make more money developing/renting versus buying/renting. 

I believe that this approach minimizes downside by exploring the numerous currently for sale opportunities with assumable mortgages.

In the meantime I read every book I could find on commercial real estate; attended every commercial real estate meeting in the Houston area, and spoke to numerous commercial brokers.

That kind of thing would only apply to capital elements of the house. 

I noted numerous times that the more people add to the thread, the higher it will rank on Google and potential surpass the own company, but still, ye persist.Who in the world drops into a forum to dry run the leg of a company that the "believe they will be signing up for in the very near future."

This is a safe place for my CO investors to vent.In all seriousness, the dramatic policy increases I have seen numerous investors stomach right now is making us all scratch our heads and wonder what alternative options are out there.

I've had people ask me this on numerous occasions and I have refused.

In this market, they don't have to.However, we have now also an element that makes our job much easier as investors: appreciation.

each area has nice features but they are different in valuation >the ranking's in Neighborhood scout don't give any scale.neighborhoodscout provides percentages in addition to the numeric comparison score I find more useful because it is not as easy to recognize if a certain percentage is good or bad over a period of time.