They are complete con artists and will ALWAYS find ways for owners to pay for their bills.

I have seen a number of properties popping up in Bristol for sale, have you been putting in any offers?

And, if inflation is tracking at the same rate as the appreciation, then the NPV is (obviously) impacted.In Fayetteville, which until very recently hasn't been a big appreciation market (feel free to disagree if you see it differently), the topic of appreciation doesn't pop up much.

Value add on market inventory is very low right now like most places, but there are a lot of old mom and pop owners around.

Getting it about $20k below the current appraisal in a hot area so I'll go and do some work while there and get out of the PMI early, then sell and roll that into a different set of investments, all the while using my extra income (by not paying for my house) to continue with little SFR one-offs when they pop up and make sense.Real estate is very fluid, friend; stay open to options.

This is one of those questions that seems to pop up on BP fairly often, and if you ask 20 people you'll get 20 different answers depending on their background and experiences.

A few thoughts:1. the real estate market cycle indicates and upcoming “pop” although the graph is a great indicator of how appreciation needs to be factored into calculations.

Zillow is notorious for bad information so be prepared to contact customer service after you list to correct any issues that pop up.

It's been about 3 years and I'm happy with my Pottstown properties (even the "Just because you CAN buy a house for $5000 doesn't mean you SHOULD buy a house for $5000" one that I ended up putting $50k in work into).It took us about 18 months to get them stabilized - deal with all the repairs that popped up during initial renting and whatnot. 

Hi Shai, forgive me if I am behind the time on my acronyms but I am assuming that OOC stands for Out Of Country and NOT Out Of Character which is what popped up from a google search?