My Mom has always has rental properties in the city of Grand Rapids growing up, I thought she had the craziest story when she told me that one of her properties one time my step-dad pulled up to it to check on it, and the whole GARAGE door was stolen.

The prices of homes in our area is going up rapidly (Idaho Falls ID) and folks that could have qualified a few years ago are now getting priced out of the market.

Back in 2008-2009 when prior rapid appreciation had resulted in tax increases, many of us experienced severe hardship, and a family member ended up in foreclosure.

I live in Grand Rapids, MN and am looking for people to meet up with, buy them coffee, and talk Real Estate Investing.

It will be interesting to see if admissions continues to grow so rapidly.

I know in my area, prices have appreciated rapidly, but are still much behind Orlando Proper. 

Whereas a new regional pilot could make about $30,000 per year starting out (pre-911), and be up to $60,000-$90,000 within 1-2 years with an opportunity for rapid advancement and pay increases, a new pilot now starts out at around $18,000, and advancement opportunities have been dramatically reduced (approximately cut in half).

The size of the deal supports onsite professional management.The NC/SC areas are good emerging markets where equity is rapid and huge.

So the mortgage, taxes/insurance, and all general costs of operations are covered entirely by the renters, PLUS I typically add about $50 a month to the principal payment of each mortgage, which leaves me with $4300 in passive income.In my opinion, inflation rates are extremely understated, please see these two articles that drive the point home:http://www.businessinsider.com/if-people-knew-the-...https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-05-09/devonshi...Essentially, in times when the dollar is depreciating rapidly, in our situation due to excessive years of "easy money" and quantitative easing by the Fed, low fixed-rate debt is the best tool to combat inflation.

I realize that this isn't great considering that I have maintenance costs, etc, but rent is appreciating rapidly in the neighborhood and I expect to raise it to $2450-2500 by next year and $2600-2700 the year after.Our new home:- We had access to a HELOC at Prime (3.5% at the time) and bought a home in the Gilead Ridge neighborhood in Huntersville.