The same can be said of a market like Sparks near Reno that has jumped because of tens of thousands of Tesla employees that get the job first, sell their over-priced CA home, jump on Sparks real estate, and the market inflates.

Looks like it's run by Kevin Sparks?  

At some point in the show he plugged his RE investment podcast and something he said really sparked my interest so I made a note to check out his website and podcast.  

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I had an especially bad day when I wrote the boat post -- but I'm faced with the reality of no career advancement, no meaningful ability to save or to lower my standard of living, a wife with a stalled career and two kids to raise, and RE investments being the only light at the end of a long, dark tunnel.

Net Worth is a paper tiger and is really meaningful only at two points in your lifebragging rights at a cocktail partydealing with your estate when it goes to your heirsLoad Rate, qualifications for loans, and cash-on-cash returns have no component of your net worth.

I'm hoping, at first, that my drive will at least spark the interest of potential mentors/partners and my perseverance will help.

Garrett Sparks I meant 😎

It will be well worth it and spark additional selling points for commercial deal success.

Limitations of CAP rates include:they are only meaningful locally - i.e. comparing CAP rates in two different cities - or perhaps two distant neighbourhoods in the same city - is futile;they are only meaningful when comparing like assets - using CAP to compare a 11-unit apartment building and an 11-unit strip mall is dubious;they are meaningless when comparing residential (1-4 unit) properties - You see folks on BP all the time talking smack CAP rates on SFHs and quadraplexes.