@Deanna McCormick, @Greg S.: can you elaborate?

Most of our houses are in the inner city in rapidly gentrifying areas so we have plenty of liberty to design and do things that aren't so bland and run of the mill.

The mortgage industry in 2016 practically assumes that everyone is tech literate, can docusign, checks their email daily, can scan to pdf, etc etc.

You can back off on needing cash flow if the market is going up rapidly. 

@Rachel Steenland    Denton, TX   3 universities...at least 2 of which seem to be expanding rapidly. 

Frisco has some growing pains from their rapid growth, Richardson is more mature, but older housing stock, Plano is a mix of old and new, Allen, Fairview, and Mckinney are mostly new. 

Depending on your market, another item I haven't seen discussed on BiggerPockets is feng shui.I was at a rapidly-growing startup that needed a larger office space, but office vacancies were hard to find at the time.

The only logically predicted result was rapid escalation of RE equity (inflation of RE value), which is fine as long as incomes increase at the same rate.

I've found a large focus here on BP is generating cash-flow or flipping for the rapid return, not on investing for appreciation.

He brought the groping and body scanning.