Quote from @Sherief Elbassuoni: Whenever I have cash, I put it as a downpayment for a new rental.Even if you got 4-5%, this is less than inflation, so your money is loosing valueMonth over month inflation is more current information than year over year...and it has been near zero in total for the past nine months and negative for 5 of those 9 months. 

You chose this path.

Curious to hear, how did this end?

Tons of information on here about that, again also passive pockets and one of my favorites who puts out good info is Alexey on linkedin (google him you will find him)3.

However, this explanation no longer makes sense when it comes to homes that are much more expensive.

De Sota is in Jonson County KS which is the hotest housing market in the metro.

Appraiser's learned a valuable lesson in 2008 when they were accused of being one of the causes of the great recession.

Then you can just go to the chat, and analyze the deal, it can even pull CMA and rental estimates, count in the repairs and get you cash-on-cash or cap rate or whatever metrics you need.

I never heard of this before.

I can at least find out the rules that go by or what they allow.