Yeah you might have done better from a pure ROI perspective but you've accomplished some goals you had and learned a lot.And that's not a terrible rent:price ratio for PB.    

@David Goossens perspectives are on the mark too.  

I'm working on geofarming, and I have two issues popping up:1. Until recently, I was able to pull data from the past 12 months to calculate higher or lower turnover rates to determine what neighborhoods had the best o...

From a time perspective they have 20 years to go until they could retire, I retired the day I started doing a job, that most would wait until after retirement to do.To me real estate has proven to be the ultimate form of job security, I cannot be downsized, I dont have to hang around 10 years to get a raise, I am not a pawn on the board of someone elses pocket book.

Jon,From my perspective, most of these apartment complexes are owned by people who made their money elsewhere and are fooled into buying these apartment buildings by realtors, investment advisors, and others who don't understand the business.

Think of it from the lenders perspective.

I have come across a deal with an investor that is looking to retire. He has a portfolio of about 15 bldgs from sfr's to 6 unit bldgs all in the same neighborhood, for a total of 35 rental units.They are not in the b...

If you are looking at the deal from a rent-assist mortgage payment perspective, this is a great deal.

Gabe, As Bryan stated, everyone has there own perspective.

So all in all that's Oregon from my perspective I moved from Napa VAlley in 2001..