The Sonoma and Napa Valley wine country is great (I recommend renting bikes—there are many trails and beautiful scenery).

Either way, be consistent with it and after a long enough time to honestly evaluate your marketing effort, either continue it or stop it, ie...green light/red light.

I'd be more concerned with 2 things:1) The drastic temperature change the house will experience in going from white to black shingles2) A home inspector for your end buyer who might throw up a red flag since he won't run into something like that very often.

However Baltimore is the only city in the top 25 markets where the rental rate of return is over 20%Baltimore has one of the most stable economies in the United States, median household income averages $70,000 which ranks #4 in the U.S.Baltimore’s millenial population has grown 16% in the last 5 yearsBaltimore has over 1,000 miles of natural shoreline making it one of the most beautiful places to liveBaltimore gets over 2,000 hours of sunshine a year, rivalling Florida as the “sunshine state”Over 2.7 million people reside in the region making it the 20th largest metro in the countryHigh opportunity and relatively low home prices make Baltimore one of the hottest Real Estate markets in the nationProperties can be purchased in the $70 - $85K range and rents range from $1300 - $1600 a month for 3 - 4 bedroom homes.

The first is to provide the life I promised my beautiful bride (that's Nikki) in my initial pitch 19 years ago.My wife, Nikki, is a licensed cosmetologist/hair magician, homeschooling mom of 4, entrepreneur in women's health, a CRAZY phenomenal cook, a very loyal (read: non-gossipy) friend, and all-round pretty fantastic chick.My 2nd dream is producing 4 highly-productive, others-focused, highly unaverage adults out of my beautiful kids.Number 3 is changing every single life I touch for the positive, some in big ways, some in "small" ways.I love to inspire, encourage and strengthen people.

Tangentially, I'm actually kind of surprised that the scientific consensus that magnitude 8 or 9 earthquake is definitely coming for Portland and Seattle in the next 50 years hasn't slowed down development sales, even though many of the beautiful old houses in Portland aren't even eligible for earthquake insurance.

In mid 2008, Nicole decided to call this beautiful mountain town her home.

No painting (just the windows), either.This will transform the entire facade from dowdy to beautiful, and highly marketable.

Diving under the ice was the most beautiful thing- and finding gold on the seafloor and being watched from the shadows by a spotted ice seal- that said though, the people striking it rich out there were doing it in the form of tv contracts, not so much dredging.  

Do not let your increase in payments put you into the red.