I commute into NYC for work so the geography is desirable for this but not for the price, I could have more of a home with a yard...As icing on the cake - the shotty work behind the walls in the building caused a water sprinkler break back on Valentine's Day and I had to be evacuated.

I believe you can have your cake n eat it too sort of.

Icing on the cake would be the ability to enter value adds year by year in the projection.What I've found so far is this:  https://www.asimplemodel.com/r...  

If you already have a supporting cast in place, then it will be a piece of cake.

Have you ever seen those Pinterest photos where they show the beautiful cake and then their final result when attempting to re-create the beautiful cake at home?  

This may explain why some properties get foreclosed multiple times.Once you know how to invest in the Bay Area, you'd realize that appreciation is the cake, not the icing.Have fun investigating and finding your own niche.

Appreciation (the icing on the cake)5.

For pure unadulterated BS these 3 take the cake, Seemingly educated (and even some smart) people fell for their line completely.8.

When I go to sell then it will just be icing on the cake because I don't account for appreciation either.

But, as stated, it was very much a learning experience, and coming out of it with all my teeth, is icing on the cake!