I would look to the market and sphere of influence you believe you can tap into.  

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This isn't solely a Philadelphia problem, but it's exasperated by the amount of power and influence City Council members have over their districts.

The YouTube and Instagram influencers who say it's easy to "Just BRRRR your way to wealth using Other People's Money and I quit my W2 job in 3 years at the age of 30 and I have passive income, etc" I wish people would stop listening to that garbage and talk to investors who have been doing this for 20+ years. 

In that case, since they are also on title as an equity owner in the deal, they can participate in the upside and help influence how the property is operating.

I do think supply will continue to increase versus current demand as current delinquencies go to short or REO status, and some of the demand will wane as first time homebuyers fill their order and tax incentives expire.

Christopher Boggs, when you put yours in shape, you will already be influencing the neighborhood in a positive way.

And since the borrowed money is fixed, and assuming healthy and stable occupancy is possible, the cash flow performance can mostly be influenced only by raising rents ahead of rising operating costs over the years.So...

This is our first tax year with any sort of real estate investments on there to influence our tax hit for 2017.

I have no influence over if Apple or Google stock  goes up or down, other than to buy more or sell.