I own a Smart Home Automation company in NJ, we deal a lot with current homeowners wanting to improve their home but I have been wondering how do investors, flippers, etc feel about this trend so I love this thread.

It is difficult to find good Cap Rates in the Raleigh-Durham metro if you're paying retail since the upward trending real estate values are outpacing rent increases.  

Prasad,Here are some starting points for market evaluation:1) You want job, pop, rent and vacancy trends in your favor (top 10 markets; or > than natl avgs)2) You want diverse industries present, new construction happening (and I like to look for catalysts).  

We need an experienced agent that knows the neighborhoods and trends. 

Taking into considerations your entire portfolio, including the options of current property as rental or sell the property to acquire 2 rental properties, with and without leverage.One of the reasons I specify someone local to you, as they would understand the local real estate market and should also be able to analyze where the rental and real estate trends are headed.

A popular trend.

I certainly am excited to be a part of this vibrant community and open to get to know as many of you as possible, share new ideas, learn and discuss business opportunities and marketing trends with one another.

Overall, now that interest rates are low, they trend more on the high sideThe tenant then get's to live there where their monthly expense is usually just the utilities (or monthly payment to the bank for borrowing the money for the large "deposit" or a portion of it).

@Carly Franklin  I owned the logging company.. we did land and timber all through the 90s as that was the hottest money maker at the time.. yes PDX is on fire right now.. pretty tough go of it.. you would be far better off getting a RE license and concentrate on getting listings from your warm network.. listings are MONEY IN THE BANK with no risk...

In layman’s parlance one could say it is a book about timing the market.It follows the Trass Methodology developed by the author of the same name which basically states that the cycle is driven by 16 specific macro-economic indicators (key drivers) and by monitoring the ongoing trends in conjunction with one another, one can successfully predict the markets future movements.