Its now up and coming with Jeep rebuilding and ProMedica building/growing rapidly.  

“Rising property values and housing development costs are rapidly causing an upward shift in the price range of residential real estate available within Austin and across the region.

Hello all, my wife and I are south of Grand Rapids, Michigan.  

I am in need of another general contractor as our business has grown rapidly and my current GC could use some healthy competition.

In this article from Forbes, Dallas was the top city to invest in housing with an expected continued 30% increase in price by 2020 for the following reasons: 1) 6.2% three-year population growth (2012-2015)2) 3.9% job gains in 20163) 9-10% annual home price gainslink to the article: http://www.forbes.com/sites/samanthasharf/2017/01/...For flippers, you may find it challenging to find margins of 30%, but the rapid increase in home values has helped with the lower initial purchase margins with flippers selling at a premium. 

I am writing to clarify a misconception I have seen on BP forums and I have heard from REI Gurus as well.  I keep hearing that most or a majority of the wealthiest people have built their fortunes through real estate ...

@Jeff White typically the contract rents at the subject will serve as the best "rent comps"  for the subject's market rents; however in this case, where the units are being rented for well below market, the appraiser will not give much weight to the contract rents at all and base rents heavily on other market rents.  

Utilization carries a weight of 30% in the FICo scoring models, 23% in the Vantage models.A short credit history will also result in lower scores than long-established credit.For other applicant, yes - the late payments and collection will bring the score down.

The area we own them in is rapidly growing and we have decided to convert them into condos.  

I want to know what sort of things are factors in your decisions and what each weight you would factor in for each; with 1 being the lowest weight 10 being the highest.