I do enjoy my free time, and will actually be leaving in 10 days for the northern coast of California where I will spend my summer golfing, playing softball, and playing pickle ball in 70-80° weather every day.Rich

Some of them can't.September weather is good for moving.

May be I was to harsh on the used car salesman.

Even before this we would constantly be looking at homes weather that was looking in windows of homes for sale as we drove by or when we were moving viewing 50-100 homes before we found the right house.

Weather its in the S&P500 or long term rental investment real estate, the funds should be earning and working 24/7.

., the main sign was their credit wasn't exceptional, but they made enough money to afford the place. sadly, they've actually taken very good care of it up until now, but i think they don't know how to manage money.i'll be honest and say my mistake was that i wasn't enough hands-on with the tenant selection process and jumped too quickly. i'd hoped to have the place rented out by the end of july before i left for a vacation to costa rica. i didn't market effectively enough and that didn't happen.my property manager found them while i was on vacation. i was hungry to start making money on this home i'd just sunk a significant portion of my savings into and they "seemed like good people." my property manager is taking responsibility for the bad experience, but it was ultimately my ok.the lesson here is to do your due diligence in screening and be patient while you look for the right tenant. i'm losing more money now with them not paying than i would have had i waited for someone better. even worse, i'm going to have to kick someone out in the middle of an extremely harsh midwest winter, which i've read is a terrible time for finding new tenants.

Once an area gets hit with tons of claims the remaining insurance companies price in future risk.Just like FHA has raised fees and costs on new borrowers the insurance companies do the same to recover losses on large payouts when an area is hard hit.The weather patterns of an area and how that impacts insurance is one thing my clients and I look at on commercial policies.

Little challenging to paint in that weather.

And a few days before the closing the weather turned warm and the smell cme back.

I've been messing around with getting averages of rents in different areas then dividing by 1.3%-1.6%(The rule of 2 seemed pretty harsh) and using the resultant number to estimate a worthy price.