My name is Jonathan Rempel and I have no real background in real estate investing. My experience has come from watching friends and family in the real estate business, either as general contractors, agents, brokers, a...

Any cash flow you received in the middle should be considered icing on the cake.

Either way, as Jacob posted on another string.....appreciation is just icing on the cake....when you get it AWESOME but don't count on it...and if you do.....your profitable deal on paper become a loser in real life.

With Bay Area real estate, you can have your cake and eat it too.I'm bringing a couple of BP folks with me to the event.

I am trying to go into this investment with the mindset that we are making passive income first, gaining equity second, and whatever we get appreciation wise is icing on the cake. 

Cash flow is only icing on the cake.  

Raised in Anaheim Hills to parents involved in Investment Real Estate.

Option 1 has no pets, just the icing on the cake!

We talked to a guy who owns a lot of real estate in the area, and he suggested we buy a SFR and sell it in a couple of years because he thinks the market is going to rise, but from everything I've learned on bigger pockets, that's supposed to be the icing on the cake, not the purpose of your buy...  

As petroleum prices sink to newly tested lows, expect the trickle-down effect to take a toll on the cities in Texas, Oklahoma, North Dakota, and fracking states, like Ohio.While Charlotte and Atlanta are both good investment locations in 2016, I believe it is safe to say that Seattle is going to take the cake in 2016.