I'm sure the added rental value could also help return the investment as well as the forced appreciation.

@Sandeep RoyIn Saint Louis, window units are a cheap alternative to retrofitting a house with force air cooling. 

Now, I never ever go to one of my properties with the exception of when my wife forces me to see the vegetable gardens she works on almost every day.By not going to my apartments I have no personal contact with my tenants and this allows me to keep emotions out of my decisions when a tenant pays their rent late.

When (insert type of income-producing real estate here) becomes more popular, buyers are willing to pay more, which means cap rates go down.There are three primary forces at play here.  1) falling interest rates make debt cheaper and makes real estate more attractive.  2) rent growth gives buyers hope that the income stream they are purchasing will grow over time.  3) poor performance or perceived risk of other investment vehicles increase the desirability of income real estate, meaning a lower cost of equity capital for real estate buyers.Expanding on point #3, the worse other investment vehicles perform, the less investors demand from their real estate investments.  

So the squeeze has and likely will continue to be there, forcing appreciation. 

The hotel sector has a strong force over them. 

Texas has higher tax rates, how does that impact investments?

He is our local real estate, retired Air Force, guru here in Montgomery Alabama.  

If not allowed to do permitted work due protectionist laws for the trades I will be forced to not invest in such deals.

Not because one controls the other, but because of humans being human and forcing a correlation between the two because thats what happened in '08.