Cash flow is mostly a function of how good of a deal you can find.  

I used some of those for single family investing too.In commercial property Cap Rate has one main purpose -- to assess the value of the property as a function of income. 

But the operator, in my eyes, would only be the people/groups that likely sourced the deal and fill the asset management function.  

If I invest 100k, and start getting back 7k per year, regardless of classification, that is, depending on your views, reducing my risk of total loss by 7k.  

As a buy and hold investor mine are: safety (first), security (second), function (third), and aesthetics (looks are last).  

On the demand side, ability to pay rent is a function of a renter’s income, while as home prices are a function of interest rate and income (people buy the most expensive house for which they can afford the mortgage payments).

@Julio Chacon JrWe choose vacation markets, and then pick the areas that we like to personally vacation at ourselves to take advantage of function stacking. 

Usually those two functions (even in those cases) are kept separate. 

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By looking out of the area, an individual will generally end up chasing yield, and with yield being a function of risk, combined with the unknown in a market they dont know, that just amplifies their risk without them realizing they are doing so.