To generalize, positive cash flow for safety, then consider ALL of your sources of profit (value add, mean reversion to historic price & rent trends (which could help or hurt you),cash flow from rent, etc.) and timeline to determine if the TOTAL investment returns over the complete life of the investment and if that total profit looks attractive compared to the risk then pull the trigger ... much like how a multi-family investor will project cashflows throughout the lifetime of an investment and compute IRR.

Not because I am one, but because they have access to all sorts of market trending data, and can also make you aware of deals in your local market.There are a number of indicators that they will track that can immediately show changes.Good luck...

such a general question and so hard to answer. here's an answer that you won't find useful at all - my gas bill is $75 per month. it's not useful to you since you have no idea what month i am talking about - cold or hot; what style house; how many square ft; where the house is located; etc, etc.to get an answer that suits your needs, you have to ask the question with more details.

The key is temples are duplicatable but style and design time period are not.

If that's the case does anyone see it trending in a different direction in 2016 or is this going to be the time to sit on any cash until the market changes? 

thanks for the advise I also do the caveman style lol it leaves a paper trail with issues with technology sometimes malfunctioning  I find paper more useful with certain things completed on my computer.

I don't ever expect any appreciation on my properties there, in fact, I expect the prices to trend down over time.

If you're brand new you'd probably be best to target live in rentals either frat house style single family live in one room rent the others or buy a fourplex live in one apartment and rent the other three out with a low 3.5% down FHA loan.Or you can do creative financing and investing which is predicated on finding a motivated seller.

I wanted to see if I'm the only one having issues, or if it is a trend.  

Every site I visit has different numbers for the same cities in the same year.I'm wondering if anybody knows of a site or resource that can show accurate, up to date demographic information that includes job growth, population growth, trends and the such for individual cities and outlying areas.