Make sure the property's condition aligns with what you're comfortable with.Market Trends: Keep an eye on the real estate market trends, just like you'd follow fashion trends for shoes.

Proper has more modern customer service and is a couple bucks cheaper. 

People moving out to French Valley go there for lower prices, so as long as you keep the rental rate down, you should be able to secure tenants in a timely fashion.

Absense a dramatic collapse in rents (no modern historical precedent for that) or a dramatic rise in expenses (i.e. quadrupling of taxes, skyrocketing insurance rates, etc.) a house that cash flows today will cash flow tomorrow whether or not the value of the house rises or falls.

Modern A-frames are a huge hit right now and since your area is in the Blue Ridge Mountains it would be perfect!

So with lots of cash I would, if you can I have never heard of what I am about to say, I just thought it up, you buy with cash your properties, then you sell owner finance at a little higher interest rate than that of good credit borrowers bank will lend to people that can't get a loan the old fashion way but can afford to buy a home.

The amount of equity I have in the investment property is a big factor in whether or not I am ready to sell so I am trying to get an idea of what the market looks like right now for a small multifamily (4-plex) in downtown phoenix.The property had gut rehab when I purchased 4 years ago and is modern and in great shape, and has been consistently fully rented out.

You can ask other investors who sell homes retail (in the same fashion you are rehabbing too).  

The modern age! 

You have to make your property stand out by it being modern comfortable fun and great pictures.