Our traffic is another piece of supporting evidence.

Experience is evident when you talk and you need to convey you know what you're doing.  

However, before I buy the property I would like to have a solid local property manager/ management company and a GC on my team.

I'm working on a couple things, as soon as they are solid I will let you all know.Looking forward to working with you in 2016. 

Jennifer, thanks for that, I will make sure that I have a solid exit strategy for all my deals moving foward.

I just don't know what to believe or where to get solid,experienced, and trustworthy information anymore.

Without cash and experience and a solid understanding of what your doing "investing" is close to impossible!

That is how I see all of my rentals - I do not much care what they are worth at the moment, all I care about is that my tenants make my mortgage payments, and in 30 years (or 15, depending on the mortgage term) I will have a paid off asset that brings me solid cash flow every month.

You will likely need to be prepared to act quickly, so be sure you have a solid handle on deal analysis.

Considering my job was basically to get a property ready for market (clean out/fix, get appliances, full occupancy, etc) I assumed the only SOLID way to get accurate appreciation was physically adding value to the property (renovations, etc.) and increased rents.