While your insurance and mortgage payments may have a variable rate of cost proportional to your home value, certain repair costs will have a more fixed rate cost, and thus decrease as a percentage of the home value as that value goes up.

One compact switch with preset and toggle for both.That has worked pretty well for me over the years until recently.The problem is more and more fans now come with a remote. 

Yes,...I mean no,.....well, maybe.Higher priced homes might mean higher rents, but not always directly proportional to the cost of the property. 

In those situations while the ultimate buyer may have been paying the commission,  it still resulted in a proportionally lower offering price.   

A big unanswered question concerns the proportion of owner-occupants to owner-investors/renters in any given area.   

The risk ($240k loan) is out of proportion to the reward (cash flow).B).

If Austin doesn't go full left-wing-permissive-seattle-style and ensures those services have conditions and boundaries, so that they don't get the "Freeattle" reputation then the shelter won't draw an outsized proportion of people from all over who just want handouts,  instead it will be more likely to draw people from Austin actually looking to turn things around.   

Higher income households pay a greater $ amount, but everyone pays an equal proportion.

For my roofing business, we've gone completely digital w/ Docusign - my salespeople all carry tablets and either use Powerforms or in-person signings, except for that one in a million 90 year old who wants to touch the physical contract before signing.If you're looking for a scanner, check out the Brother ADS-1000W: https://www.amazon.com/Brother-ADS1000W-Compact-Wireless-Networking/dp/B00EKW6JGII have this at home for when I don't feel like going into the office.

There are multiple factors that go into this...ALL of them have $$$ in front, not %%% behind them.The quality of the school district might (or not) increase the value of the property...and the taxes, and the insurance, but not always the rent...at least in proportion to the property values.