Based on recent trends and forecasts, the Dallas real estate market distinguishes itself due to a range of advantageous factors for both renters and investors.

Forecasting that time to be in around 1.5 to 2 years.

Now... the real cost of real foods went up around 23% over the last 5 years, odd are with global warming and the wacky weather it brings the cost of foods are going to keep going up significantly in the next 40 years and beyond (yeah every one wants to pretend global warming is a myth as island nations are disappearing and New York is building floating real estate today to contend with rising oceans by 2020, and all those folks making a fuss over GMO food are not going to be to high and mighty to eat a mushroom that taste like steak when beef goes up to $25 a lb) so that whole dafy "Lump Sum" thing with retirement accounts don't account for that.

Nearly $10K later, we have now come to the conclusion that it was a combination of the extreme wet weather we've experienced combined with the fact that they were not running the AC and instead running the fan only. 

We may be at the beginning of what the yield curve has been forecasting events will make interest rates hikes improbable. 

I want to be somewhere with good weather most of the year. 

If you buy in a good location, have suffient cash reserves, have a solid business plan and the property cash flows, then you should weather the storm.

It would be worth $1 million in Gatlinburg on a river front.If you are attempting to forecast future rents and house values in the Gatlinburg region, it might be helpful to look at similar mountain towns out west. 

Its almost like a second job...but those who can weather the storm have access to financial freedom that is not possible for many. 

@Ben Pileggi You are the only person that chimed in on here this month and I am pretty under the weather this morning so I am going to Cancel for today.