The possible appreciation is only icing on the cake.

So that's the icing on the cake.

Joining should be about serving your country, with benefits being icing on the cake.

The weather is like the icing on the cake at that point lol. 

Not that you should expect much for $100, but listing with a "tight tank" is as close to making a property unmarketable as you can get.The icing on the cake is getting the seller's area code wrong.

I have definitely been treating appreciation more as "icing on the cake" and looking to invest based on cash flow. 

I don't know the specifics of MJ use to be limited to smoking but I would think there are other ways to get the medical benefits of the MJ through an edible or by some other means that doesn't impact others.

Beyond smell, you're going to have a reasonable amount of heavy trucks bringing chemicals, septic haulers bringing in portable crap loads, solid waste cakes being hauled to the landfill or (worse) slurry land applied. 

Are they proposing 2 hours with cake and ice cream at 2pm,  an all day free for all, or partying until 10 pm.  

The profit at the sale, or $170,000, will have been generated via appreciation, plus any additional equity that you had built through paying down the mortgage.That being said, while appreciation is nice, it’s not guaranteed, which is why you should always invest for cash flow first and foremost, with appreciation as the icing on the cake. #5 – Tax BenefitsWhen you invest in real estate, you get the benefits of depreciation and mortgage interest deductions, as well as a whole host of write-offs for a number of other related expenses.