Cash flow does NOT predict profitability.

maybe a few references or the lack of, would have help you predict these results.3. did your contract spell out exactly how you PM company would be paid?

Now I have no mortgage and a line of credit on my home that I can use for other investments.I couldn't have predicted all this when I made my initial "investment" in the house; a lot of this scenario played out because of the housing crash.

We saw this article and the external link to the interactive map (https://www.biggerpockets.com/renewsblog/25-single-family-rental-markets-predicted-highest-growth-2017/).

@James Park Short run no one can predict.

That is, what we want to know is whether they will pay rent (and be respectful tenants) not so much whether they will pay off a car loan or credit card every month (though that is always preferable)...The credit profiles are data driven and can be predictive of rent paying, but remember while it is great if people pay their consumer, student, and other debt, we want to know if they will pay the rent (so probe rental history closer).

On this deal, you should expect some extras above the 90-100 the contractor predicts.

Do you have predictions for what expected energy costs will be?

(As measured by cashflow)Quick scans of Zillow reveal the following candidates: (Note that I treat zillow predictions as a measure of expected variance, not a measurement of expected growth!)

It's hard to predict that far out, but only two options.