It's the weight of the responsibility you would have for the property.

But all materials have to be flown in or brought by boat which increases everything's cost by $1-$2/lb. when you think of the weight of even a small bed and breakfast and add $2 /lb you are easily tripling the cost of building.

(Jumped from 1 to 10 since the following is not done in order just a weighting system that was used as filters:US News' Ranking of Univ > 300Univ Population > 10k (with minor exceptions)Cities Population > 40kMost recent Population change of City > 0% (cash flow mainly like I said, but combined with following could lead to incr apprec)City density (peeps / sq mi) > 1,000Rental Vacancy Rate < 6% (must use PM so high turnover is not super ideal) (yes, I know, base was college area... grrr....)Median property value < $210 K (risk mitigation)Median Rent (used with above for rough cash flow ranking)Cash Flow Indicator ( 1 - Rental Vacancy Rate) * Median Rent / Median Propert Value > (Iteratively throw away cities on bottom 50% of list.)Tax / Legal Friendliness of StateThen take the top 7 from above and review the micro investing climate (actual cash flow, Cash on Cash, etc) of turn keys.

I will definitely keep it as a rental after weighting everyone's comments.

I’ve found out from times past that personal recommendations can carry a lot of weight.

But obviously the recommendations carried more weight.

Perhaps weighted polling functionality as a way rank various aspects of the service being received.

6) Is the number I'm offering less than a weighted average of (answer to 5)?

The flooring is 20 years old and is a lighter color than I'd prefer.

I'm not advocating getting rid of Realtors because most of them are worth their weight in gold.