Overall property supply across the entire net lease sector decreased by more than 17% from the fourth quarter of 2012 to the first quarter of 2013.

You will need the current assessed value (typically from the county or city web site) and an understanding of how the assessed value will change (e.g. just based on sale price, comparables, etc.).If the new assessed value increases, cash flow decreases and obviously the reverse is also true.Since property taxes are a major portion of the expenses, making sure you know not just what they ARE but what they WILL BE is important.Oren

The populations are decreasing from what I have read and even decreasing in Chicago.

On the market for over 500 days without offer they had decreased the price by the time I saw it to to $69.

You don't mind the risk of negative cash flow or being upside down should the market decrease; and3.

If you take it a step further and find someone to assing the contract, we'll say, at a profit, that degree of speculation has decreased to an assignment flip, and thereby limiting your profit to the assigned contract.

While poor lending practices are certainly a partial contributor of the financial crisis we're seeing, I personally believe there are more fundamental issues, such as a decrease in domestic production, low liquidity among individuals, corporate greed (and personal greed), drop-off in public educational standards, etc.While the lending rules may certainly have hastened (and concentrated) the financial crisis we're seeing, I personally believe it would have happened eventually, even without lower lending standards.So, I disagree with the statement that it "could not have happened without government intervention in the lending market."

Rent decreased about $150 a month because there was a flood of available rentals.

But that $500 water heater is a different percentage of a house that rents for $500 vs a house that rents for $2,000.As an added bonus, insurance rates decrease, per value, as the price goes up.Oh yea, where I grew up, $500,000 buys you a 1200 square foot, 3/2 tract house.

My sense so far is that the majority here would say that they look at lower end products or perhaps a little better.If you use a better paint product for your rentals can you discuss why it might be more profitable or might encourage better tenants.Are there repairs, rehabs, appliances that you might put in that you believe would either increase the likelihood of better rents, better tenants or perhaps decrease the cost of upkeep?