Not using leverage means you have to use your money, which in most of our cases, increases our Weighted Average Cost of Capital (WACC).

People see rapidly rising prices and automatically assume we are heading into trouble like we did in 2007-8. 

A somewhat similar city I would say they are trying to model after is Grand Rapids, Michigan. 

I have had mentors (not in RE) but in some other areas of my career and all the Ah Ha moments I got thru' mentors was worth the weight in gold! 

Now, I'm selling off all the 5 year old properties, and combining the cash from the sales with the CF, I'm rapidly increasing the CF and the value of my RE.Like I said above, I'm not interested in owning 100 properties, but the value of those potential 100 can be applied to larger ones instead. 

Making Lonnie the poster child for predatory lending is like making Ellen DeGeneres the spokesperson for Weight Watchers.I am new to Bigger Pockets, but I'm not new to RE investing.

The optometrist is growing rapidly and they wanted the real estate off of their books.  

You don't *need* that data to make a decision but newer investors on BP seem to put a lot of weight in 8% vs. 10% cash-on-cash returns.  

Which in 2017, I reckon means: putting heavy weighting on not being out of pocket for your investments on a month to month basis.

Due to the Anaheim situation, people started looking over there and the # of STRs grew rapidly.