The environment is totally different.

Buy and hold, providing a safe clean environment for people to live in at a profit.  

@Erick Brownfield My degree is construction management (I graduated from University of Washington), it's in the school with architecture and other built environments.

If you ever wondered how investors in low cap rate environments can make money, that's one way ... in this regard, and many others, cash flow (cap rates) and appreciation (value add) are like different ends of a teeter totter ... as one side goes up, the other side goes down.

This is the best rental environment we've had in the past 6 years.

In this situation I had to used hard money because the lending environment was still pretty tight (Feb 2013) so commercial lenders weren't too excited about distressed investment property.

I told you she really needs to think about creating a safe environment for kids, and this was a complete disaster.

Before 2008, 6-7% was a great rate for investment property, and our first home, we assumed a first mortgage of 11.75% in order to buy it from the bank, so we appreciate this low-rate environment as we feel long-term that this will be seen as a small window of opportunity, maybe lasting a few more years before rates rise again.         

They will usually know the local environment and have gone before the local authority for appeals before.

And you have big advantage being young and having your money grow in tax-free environment.