Scott nails it, not for an instant.

Digital guidebook, welcome basket with water bottles and chips, instant oatmeal, etc. and any other little things you can think to add around as well! 

Bigger cash flow, noticeable appreciation, and bigger paydays when we sell the property - what's not to like?

I found a 4 plex ...It's 10k less then it's worth that's an instant 10k in equity.

Have the reporters ever heard of credit card rates, or pay-day loans?

I have $100K instant equity and positive cash flow.

I started listening to the BP podcast and was instantly impressed by the abundance of knowledge  on the show..

I would absolutely buy a projected negative cash flow property if one or more of the following 1) it had a great value add that would provide equity significantly above costs 2) it was priced significantly below retail so that I had instant equity above cost 3) I was very confident of significant market appreciation (which I am not at this point) 4) I was very confident of significant rent appreciation.  

I got a nice payday when partners bought me out.I just wanted to focus on ( like you said on two basic business models that I enjoy far more than SFR middle America rentals).It will be intereting to see how your portfolio is doing at year 5.. that tends to be the year when you have full cycles on most.And I am thinking Omaha may not have some of the issues some of the other mid west cities have vis a vi tenant base crime etc.I worked with a company that did IRA set ups for a time. and their story was the same as yours with google. for years they were killing it then google changed pricing and what was a few grand a month was now 50 to 100k a month.

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