There are good basketball players and bad basketball players.

I do have a couple of local clients who purchase the C-D Class properties and do ok, but it's not all that passive of an income.

The MIRR is a better economic approach as the reinvestment may be at different rates, like a CD rate or totally ignored as not being reinvested.  

This thread now has new life because a former appraiser, now turnkey provider, steps forward to state that appraisers are not only the smartest but also the only unbiased players involved in a real estate transaction.Thanks for the laughs!

If you are a short term player, then a drug house may be a solid model.  

To put this in sports terms you don't have to be a pro player to be a really good recreational player that is the best in your area. 

If you can't keep a job working with the really big players that fix the bridges and tunnels and government buildings and hospitals here, that's when you're sent down the ranks to work for the residential builders and big contracting outfits.

As a field, too many in real estate for too long have had a less-than-a-stellar track record on discrimination and thus we think it is a good thing for a major player like Airbnb giving this a go.

Skip LeBron, take the C student, he'll be a "Miracle"-worthy, and faithful team player, not a headache

Demoralizing to say the least, but I knew this was a possibility and must move forward. plan B, C, D, etcB: Sell current house and get 70k to put towards the 300k student loan debt that has had me stuck in month to month living for the past 10 years.