Being new, I didn't think about things like market fluctuations and the possibility of a mass exodus of lenders that would prevent anyone that even wanted to buy my home from doing so.

One US dollar is worth roughly .0011 bitcoin, but the value of bitcoin is constantly fluctuating.

They use algorithms that attempt to estimate what the property is worth, and these values can fluctuate wildly compared to the properties real market value.

I'm less worried about the prices because they will fluctuate from great deals to ridiculously great deals buts but I'd like to have the model in order.

As you move out from these ares you still find really nice houses, but the values begin to fluctuate.

I've seen numbers fluctuate greatly depending on location and proximity to manhattan...

Gary West, just another item to consider in your one-at-a-time approach, but markets and interest rates fluctuate, and while Feb 2014 probably won't be that different, waiting several years for each one may hurt your ultimate goal as right now we are still in a record low interest rate environment along with low home prices, but in 5 years, you may be looking at 8% rates or prices too high to justify buying to rent them out.

I rent market rent and keep it there and if something happens in the local economy where the market rent still holds but is having some fluctuation due to a amajor source of local industry failing or something else; and that tenant stays, then I keep it the same if an annual increase would harm the investment or hurt the vacancy rating.

And, if the RE guy flips the property and moves on to the next on, that is better and may serve as a construction company, but the rehab guys usually don't work as often or produce the benefits of a factory assembly line.All said, RE is on the bottom of rungs of the ladder in a way as investors tend to go with RE cycles, seasonal work, inventory fluctuations, it's just never been a steady employer like a drug store or lumber yard or small factory.

this is more a supply and demand question.Unless all the students move back in with mom and pop, the housing market won't fluctuate all that much.