Long Term Hold for Appreciation:Pros: Miami's real estate has historically shown strong appreciation, especially in prime areas.

So do your research, but also consider passive investing Visa V syndications or even equity reits, Which have historically outperformed the S and P 500 over 20, 30, fifty years and even outperformed direct, active ownership of real estate by 4 to 6 per cent.

So their historical financials suck.  

Would need to provide year end statements and ideally a way to import prior history in (avoiding re-inputting of the historical data).

Just means the exuberance of the rise is not something we can take a snapshot of and say this needs to be in our how valuation on historical yields of house appreciation, rent appreciation, etc.

Historically real estate and markets are nearly identical over a long period of time. 

Mortgage rates are driven by the capital market and basically follow the bond market, specifically 10 year US treasury with a premium, historically about 1,7%.Yesterday the 10yT fell to 3.9% and I have seen 5.99% 30y fixed rates with a local bank in here Milwaukee (that is still an inflated 2% premium), so 5.7% would be historically normal based on a 1.7% premium, even without the 10YT going any lower.Here is why.If the 10yT offers lower returns, more investors want to buy mortgage-backed securities instead to get higher returns (about 1.7% higher), as a consequence lowering the returns on those as well.

To nail down where there are opportunities in B/C class neighborhoods would be difficult - I'd recommend getting a realtor that works directly with investors and knows where to find what you're looking for.I'm biased with PHX / AZ, but historically it's proven itself. 

As a local team lead focused on investment real estate, we often start by analyzing comparable properties and historical data to get a baseline for expenses.

Historically the long term appreciation is outstanding.