Think about it, higher rates will depress the valuations/limit buyer pool if you want to move it along.

If your car is riddled with bullets and you see bodies lying in a pool of blood in the street, it's definitely a war zone!

Isn't that assumed with the sale- like a tenant lease, landscaping contract, pool service, etc.? 

Does anyone have any resources that can be used to access values for adjustments to be made when making appraisals in different areas.I know that a pool or an extra bedroom in San Diego, California will merit a different deduction then Orlando, FL, but how much exactly?

The government spends trillions of dollars to fight a war, so that private companies (whom the same government hates because they make so much money) gets a better contract for oil...and at the same time we have more oil than Saudi Arabia in our own back yard.

There is so much clover and broad-leaf weeds in the backyard now that you can't see the underlying lawn anymore.

VA financing seems to be your best bet.Your only hope (absent the VA loan possibility) to get into a deal without a down payment will be with seller financing, which will limit your pool drastically, increase how many deals you have to go through to find something, and likely increase your purchase price. 100% financing deals are virtually non-existent right now outside of finding a desperate seller that wants to dump property.

CASH IS KING right now and those that can summon large pools of money to buy assets on the cheap will make mounds of money going forward.

Being that RE in these areas is expensive, a rental condo is often the cheapest route to go to acheive this goal.This leads me to purchasing condos in these areas; As it will be a long distance investment this takes some of the concern for property management and maintenance out of the question, and allows for me to throw my condo in the "rental pool".Noticing a negative sentiment about such investments here on BP, I would appreciate for some of you to detail the cons/negtaives of such a strategy (as well as the positives and other advice).

Complex has nice pool and recreation area.