As the Article notes, such a trend is not a sign of a Healthy Marketplace.

As a young person wanting to enter real estate investment in the very near future, I am trying to carve out an area to learn the most and focus on. I am interested in buy and hold rentals, particularly in college tow...

The trailers are in pretty good shape and look to retail at about 10k.

Property doesn't really need any repairs as he's kept it in good shape and is simply tired of being a landlord he says and is ready to retire.

With the rental market trending where it is, the state of financing, economy, and so on I think you will find a real good nich in those, with very little competition.

New England doesn't have the O they did a few years back and their D is worse... the Giants O is better and their D is rounding into the shape it was a few years back.I think the Giants win this comfortably.

The fact that the working class hourly wage is not following the appreciation trend is a significant concern. 

(Agreement was i wouldnt pay for renovations I would live rent free until I made my money back and she would sell the house to me in 2 years which she no longer wants to do which is fine but...If she sells i can get my money back i put into it)What still needs to be done, Foundation isnt looking good, structurally walls are cracking as if the house is sinking hard to explain without pictures, roof, siding, gutters, front porch, hot water tanks are old, basement floods, backyard fence is about to fall over and if it does its going to hit a lot of cars next door and she is going to be in a really bad position, and the upstairs needs a total gut its in terrible shape.

If the house is in really rough shape, then this might not work.

But more importantly they provide a historical reference and can help identify trends and correlations.For each of our properties, we establish a performance tracking dashboard that visualizes these monthly KPIs as trends across the full history of the property.