Just trying to emphasize the importance of buying your properties correctly.  

But with Brrrr, do people here de-emphasize cash flow looking at the 5 year total return instead.  

Make it suit the tenant you desire- young professional- add some humor & emphasize fun.  

So I'm looking to emphasize the main entrance of the home with maybe a combination of landscaping, house numbers, mailbox location, etc.I look forward to your thoughts!

Obviously this site has really emphasized the importance of keeping capital.

When I was going to college my father was buying and selling rea estate (mostly commercial) I was interest in being like him but at the time, when l got a business degree that emphasized real estate, I thought I could be like him but I was more interested in the construction business and stayed in it until I had a brain annuerism and stroke at age 54.  

I can't emphasize this enough.

This is more conservative than prevailing thought here on BP, which emphasizes short term cashflow gains, maxed leverage, and views equity as a bad thing.If you're determined to pay that house off rapidly, refinancing into a 30 year at a higher rate, and then making a bunch of extra payments, would be folly. 

Eventhough I got a business degree that was real estate emphasized by real estate.  

Since I graduated from college with a business degree that was emphasized in real estate (in 1980).