If you call them with an aggressive or defensive tone of voice, the likelihood that the activity will continue, or even increase, is strong. 

@Jonathan Cassady All the big commercial brokerages like CBRE, Marcus & Millichap, Cushman & Wakefield, JLL have active offices in Atlanta.

Again i'm new at this and i'm just playing with the numbers. this one seemed like it would cash flow. 

So I understand that ROI is your profit (income-mortgage-expenses) divides by total initial investment (maybe down payment+closing costs).So let’s say I’m renting it out and building equity, how how does equity come into play.

@Yonah Weiss, @Dmitriy Fomichenko - The Depreciation comes into play when you're calculating your profits for purposes of UDFI Tax computation. 

Austin for me is an appreciation play, cash flow won’t be much but this is a long buy/hold

Use it a little, then pay it off so it shows there's some activity. 

Find active and sold properties and start comparing.

Like a lot of people, I had an "awakening" after reading Rich Dad, and have spent the past couple of months reading and learning as much as I can.I'm currently living in Stuttgart, Germany, and I'm Active Duty Army.  

Brew City Investors is a very active org.