Also I think market differentiation should be considered, for example if there are mostly 4 bedrooms in the are the 5 bedroom may outperform in resale due to scarcity. 

There's a LOT of markets between Boston and Florida that will outperform Boston (where last I checked the 1% rule is basically unattainable).

Aside for being correct, they are also equalizing - they apply to you in the same measure as everyone else.The Essene of what we do can be thought of as finding ways outperform the marketplace.

Ok, here are a few more thoughts on the subject: If you market to niches that you really understand and even sub-niches within the larger categories, you can become the dominant player, irrespectively of your size and relative access to capital.If you have expertise in solving specific kinds of problems, as a hard money originating lender, you can close faster.If you actually have you own money (or at least a credit or warehouse line) you can close still faster if you so choose, and outperform other wouldbe competitors.

You can not buy true cash flow .As for the question, fixed or variable.......historically variable has always out performed fixed rates.

Even if the price of bullion doesn't take off, it should outperform the dollar.To clarify, my intent is to use the bullion to fund the down payment on the mortgage, not the full loan.  

Just curious to see if anyone has found a phrase, color, lay out, size, that has significantly outperformed other signs you have used.

Maybe up to $60K of some funds outperform.

I can make a strong case for investing in San Diego as it has worked well for us and we have been doing it long enough to have been through multiple declining markets.BTW every one of our local RE purchases have out performed everyone of out OOS purchases (we only have had 2 OOS purchases and only still own one of them). 

There will be times when the stock market will out perform the real estate market and when real estate will out perform stocks.