Winter is always the hardest time to rent quality higher rent apts and homes.Good tenants with clean records and good debt to income ratios are already in decent places to live hunkered down for the cold winter.The place will probably sit empty till May unless you offer free rent and/or reduced deposits to entice good tenants into leaving their current places and moving to yours in the middle of winter.

In a B-/Cish neighborhood, having a high quality rental will bring in the type of people I can relate to the most.  

I've browsed your forums for a few weeks and it seems you have some quality information--I hope that this will finally get me into the trenches as a principal in RE (outside of REIT investing and helping to broker a REPE deal while I worked at one of the big investment banks).Goal: ~15-20 unit Multifamily value add (likely hold) in WA State; likely urban infill class C/C-; 20%-30% down on a total deal between $600k-$1.5mmProblem: I have been working in Singapore as a C-suite exec at a software startup for the past two years (offices in Singapore and Manila), but recently resigned and will be moving back to good 'ole America (Seattle) on March 1.

Yeah, the quality of tenants and theft are big concerns too, as I heard in many episodes of BP podcast about these problems.

Where your CF/ appreciation is balanced and tenant quality is minimal headache.

Despite this, in-office employment continues to steadily rise, resulting in even more demand by big employers for newer, high-quality office space.According to the CoStar Portfolio Strategy Forecast, the delivery of new office projects will hit its peak in 2017.

The quality of workmanship is to be good, but this is not a museum-quality restoration.  

Like most places, North Richmond has a range of areas in terms of quality.  

The other reason I'm not raising as much is the new tenants are high-quality tenants and want a 2-year lease.

Here in Allentown/Bethlehem, they do not like to re-zone something as "rooming house", as that is where they typically have the most trouble given the quality of tenants it attracts.