Things that can affect your equity position: loans fees that accrue and pile up in the payoff, a market that's flattening / on a downward trend, and price drops on your listing.

Unfortunately, the trend now is to paint over everything, including beautiful woodwork and trim.

So it's not quite as bad as the pre-bubble, but things are trending back toward that direction. 

Also, rents lag property prices by 2 to 10 years so the trends in property prices today are a good barometer of what rents will do in the future.

What are the trends for interior paint colors in high end flips and high end rentals in Chicago?

.), broken down into subcategories, you can maybe see that exterior renovations generally cost more than kitchen/bathrooms etc for the majority of properties in that area...Then you could start to come to more educated conclusions of maybe what material to use for a deck foundation because it turns out the extreme humidity wears out certain materials faster than others, and who you should hire to do the work based on a calculated average of cost vs. positive reviews for each contractor..This is a pretty simple and limited example, but I guess my point here is that data and ML will absolutely help you identify certain trends with more precise accuracy, however it still requires a thinking brain to figure out why that trend exists, what direction that trend is going to go, and execute a plan based around your newfound insights.

Fortunately, NEPA is bucking that trend this year, but normally it's slow on the rental side--nobody wants to move during the holidays. 

Looking to connect with a Real Estate Agent in the Ocala, FL area that has current experience with the buying trends for SFH new construction. 

In regards to high prices in DC, isn't that the trend that you want? 

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