The only time I had any consistent luck in TX was back in the '80s there were so many (500+ per week) in Harris county that the weight of the postings pulled the bulletin board off the courthouse wall!!!

The relative weight of price and terms are dictated by a purchaser's objective.

It matters when seeking financing.The blog might be made to justify selling a larger loan, LOL, I agree with Minh.Your return is really more to the weighted average of cash and financed amounts, so the OP's simplified allocation is not correct.There's an old saying, "figures lie and liars figure". :)

My issue is that you can end up with a collection of unused dishes and not know what is hooked up and what is dead weight.

The amount of appreciation or cash flow maybe different for each investor and the weighting might be different, but I would hope that everybody is looking for both. 

Just be careful and put more weight on the words of previous landlords. 

Even the prosecution in the Drew Peterson case had to get the law changed to allow hearsay to carry any weight in those proceedings.So, yes - readers will, indeed, "consider the source of the opinion": an uninformed person presenting his prejudices based on gossip as if they were of value as more than that.Will Barnard is misinformed.

However, depending on the weight of these factors, we would consider a lower capitalization rate.

Without knowing the location it's also hard to weight the tradeoffs or provide any insight into what may be happening to help with the homeless problem in the area. 

If a person gets caught committing mortgage fraud / bank fraud, the punishment is a million dollar fine and 30 years in the pen. Is