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. 

What sort of things can we do to give ourselves the best chance at hitting the appraisal value we want, outside of the core business function of having signed good leases, having a strong rent roll, cap-ex improvements, etc.Basically, is there anything we can do to "give ourselves an edge" when it comes to getting an appraisal? 

The tax assessor changed the classification for all houses that fit the description from class 2 residential (1-4 family) to class 4c (apartments).

Remember: you can deny someone for any reason, as long as you are not discriminating against them because they belong to a protected class. If