Personally, positive cash flow and some appreciation is more appealing to me for a lifestyle than struggling with good appreciation and hopes that the market won't adjust drastically and ruin the prior 5-10 years.If Florida is a state you're entertaining, let me know and I can offer you information and support there. 

It's too bad when a few bad eggs ruin it for the rest of us. 

At that point, they decide they want to turn flipper out of desperation, like a losing gambler upping his bets as he gets deeper in the hole, steaming hard into complete financial ruin.

I have a townhouse and like everyone stated, the HOA can ruin you AND increase fees anytime they like in many cases which can kill your deal.

Wet cabinet shelves don't last long and if they are unlined MDF they will be ruined quickly.

THS IS A WIDE SPREAD ISSUES THAT PEOPLE NEED TO DISCUSS AND TREAT JUST AS CANCER, AIDS, MS ANYTHING.

I was under a crazy amount of stress trying to get everything done well and quickly and he ruined it.

All of the engineered wood was ruined, 1500 s.f. 

When oil died and climate change took ahold coal died and Gillette got cancer, the really bad kind. 

The first evidence that dioxin causes cancer came from several animal studies completed in the late 1970's.