As predicted, Sandra Thompson is already cleaning house.http://www.mortgagenewsdaily.c...

Also, Lenders liked it after she was on the job for three years as it looked predictable for her first mortgage. 

That being said, the city has also been in steady decline for the last 50 years so predicting a recovery is not exactly a safe bet.

David-In addition to Chris' advice to talk to multiple managers of apartment investments, try to find a few local commercial appraisers and a few community bank commercial lenders, and ask them the numbers they would expect to see on a pro-forma for a property like yours.Ultimately, your real world numbers will always differ from the best intentioned prediction, so shoot for a range, not an exact number.

This will be my best move, assuming my prediction comes to fruition, LOL. 

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.