Personally, I think every investment should be treated as a business....If its not, you can't reasonably expect to extract the greatest possible ROI. 

I think automation of home building technology (many off-site 3D printing players, some on site automation tech for construction of tract homes) will be a real factor in the next 3 to 10 years that will be the primary/only saving grace to actually make housing more affordable (easiest way to meaningfully decrease build costs).

We continue to strive to form meaningful relationships with people that we can learn from, whose habits we can adopt, develop lifelong friendships and become better versions of ourselves. 5) Million-dollar HabitsNo matter what journey you embark on, to be successful, you have to pick up success habits.

What I've found personally is that I have more meaningful conversations with my clients and they feel more comfortable only having to divulge their financial "life story" to one person opposed to many. 

I'd say too that if you adopted a throughput system for RE that it would be more meaningful for RE investors if it was user friendly.

Tamarra,Welcome aboard... and happy early birthday.Stay focused, accomplish at least one meaningful task each day, and you will achieve your goals.Let us know how we can help!

Depending on the numbers involved, you might not earn a meaningful income from a financed property for quite a few years.RegardsColin

Which ones do you find most meaningful and why?

According to this Forbes articles, the 10 year appreciation from 2004-2013 was under 4% (that's the best recent 10-year data I could find):http://www.forbes.com/sites/erincarlyle/2014/01/30...Taking another recent 10-year period (from 2000 to 2010) prices actually dropped:http://www.millersamuel.com/change-is-constant-100...If you take out the 20-year time period 1980-2000, the 100 year appreciation rate is about the same.Now, you can argue that things will be more than 1980-2000 than the other 80 years, but it's just as easy to argue that the other 80 years are just as (if not more) meaningful. 

Appraiser must extract value for all features/improvements from your local market.What do your comps have, that this property lacks?