Generally the T3 is the best indicator of trend and your lender will put most weight on those numbers.

I place more weight on the desire for cash flow, but as I believe its more of a spectrum than an either/or, I'm trying to identify markets where there is at least a greater likelihood for appreciation as well. 

I wanted to know what equations/metrics are a MUST HAVE when looking at a possible deal - I'm having a hard time trying to pin down which hold the most weight and make the largest impact in the rental world!

-Exactly 3 weeks after telling me how it wasn't their fault and they weren't damaging the place on purpose, one of the unsupervised children used a lighter and started a fire under a bed in the master bedroom.

Either way you can’t  predict those dynamics and purchase and sale transactions in my opinion should put a lot more weight on price.

But now that I've found the BP calculators, I'm in love...and so is my financial planner, if for no other reason, it takes some of the weight of telling me "No" off of him because I can see for myself that it's a bad deal. 

Would it be better to add in clauses to the lease or would an addendum signed by the tenant hold the same weight.

It might sound expensive but this is off the books money and that carrys a lot of weight to me, not having my credit dinged or showing a brand new loan on my credit report bringing the score down when i go to finance it long term is a huge help if your financing in your own name.

Exceptions to that would be a game of multi-deck blackjack where the cards coming out of the deck influence what cards are still available (which is still irrelevant unless you've been keeping inventory and know which way the remaining deck is weighted).  

Definitely more crime than other parts of Maine, but crime in the state of Maine is on a much lighter level than other states it appears.