It is a great city for Investors as typically the buy-in is more conducive than other larger cities.Here in Pittsburgh new investments by Google, Apple, Facebook and Autodesk is a true testament to the growing infrastructure here.

You are talking about apples and oranges with flips and rentals.

It's apples and oranges - but I'll guess VI is more expensive. 

If they were sold for all-cash then you were comparing apples to oranges, meaning that you may have sold for way to cheap of a price for payments. 

Hi @Jatika Manigault, thank God, or perhaps google and apple, there's no such thing as a "house you can't see" these days. 

That should lead you to question the apples-2-apples comparison of Cap rates.

Hi Daniel,You need an expert to run the comps until you learn your area very well.Zillow and Trulia can diverge by a lot from the real prices, as they don't compare apple to apple and orange to orange, meaning that they will compare single family homes with condo units and multifamily buildings sold in the same time, within a block.

I usually throw cards away when I can’t take notes and almost always forget why I saved them.You can get blank cards 10 to a sheet at Staples that come with simple instructions to call up the standard business card templates in MS Word or Apple Pages.

An investment must stand on its own merit so to compare apples to apples, remove all financing in your calculations and compare each deal as if you were paying 100% cash.Now, to your next question, how do you compete with all cash?

We find people do this even when they subscribe to another product to get a list.Finally, you've mixed some apples and oranges.