I recommend researching the average appreciation over the past 10 years in your target area to get a clearer picture.As you know, in real estate, ROI comes from multiple sources: Home Appreciation:  Reno Appreciation: Value added through renovations or improvements (usually just in the first year).

And of course there would be no pattern of such, say like doing it multiple times...... 

Everytime i engage in a product its more unexpected money being required and I just do not like that.Good information.

We don't have that policy and I don't ever tell an applicant they can't apply I just make sure that there are multiple correspondences documenting our screening criteria.

A solid property management team (or maybe multiple PMs if your portfolio is large enough) is a must for out of state investing.

I have successfully defended multiple clients in this situation.Once again: Don is claiming his deduction correctly, and I am breaking the rules.

You have to do some more research.Are you saying 200k in cash so you could spread that out among multiple downpayments or 200k via a loan?

Other times you make multiple mistakes and your investment goes up anyway. 

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So when I get multiple bids and one is significantly lower, I don't think of them as a deal.