Do you know if bank appraisals are impacted my knob and tube?

What impact would the Refinance have in relation to the current financing you have on the property (i.e. increase, decrease, or neutral effect on cashflow)?

Arbitrage is fool's gold to people who don't really know all the aspects that can impact their rental business posted by @Shane C.

It might be worth it to keep saving (especially having a decent amount of reserves / emergency fund) because while anyone can bounce back from losing money, that doesn't lessen the huge impacts to your life as a result of a loss - especially if you have a family, debt, or dogs!

A market price (paraphrased) is the mutually agreed value a ready, willing, and able buyer and a ready, willing, and able seller will reach on a property where neither the buyer or seller is impacted by undue duress or influence.

Once we built a large enough organization we would have some influence (hopefully) that would impact some of these outlandish laws that impact our lively hood just like the NRA has say in their types of issues.

Because other aspects of my business(es) will have great impact on my tax bracket, available deductions, etc, I'm not sure I could accurately factor taxes into the equation even if I wanted to.

This is the best article on "extend and pretend" that I have seen so far:[url=http://recenter.tamu.edu/pdf/1962.pdf]TAMU Extend and Pretend Article[url]I guess there are some intelligent Aggies out there :wink: What are your thoughts on how the policy will play out and how it will impact the CRE market going forward?

If you stay local you will need to look at inventory of existing retail and multifamily and demand.You will need to see if rents are declining and average vintage age of the buildings.How long you will hold and what financing you seek will have a big impact as well as the returns you are seeking.It's just an impossible question to get specific on.I can have one investor love Multifamily because of the value add play and dump cash in for 50% occupancy.Another just wants a fully performing tax shelter and wants low risk.It's just like taxes in that everyone will want something different.My goal working with an investor is to ask a bunch of question and get them focused on a strategy based on the answers and formulate a plan from their.Some want strong returns and others want low hassle with wealth preservation as they already have millions.

:grin:Maybe it won't impact others like it did me, but my intention is ONLY to bring helpful information to other investors, and NOT expose them to the usual webinar that sells products we don't necessarily need, which I steer away from myself.