You're mixing the relationships of assets and income, they are two different matters and rather independent from each other, your balance sheet measures your financial position at a point in time with respect to assets, liabilities and net worth, your income statement measures the performance of the use of assets and management over a period of time.

this is a great idea for a thread and not just new england, but the NE has a great number of overpriced markets where renting is cheaper than owning - additionally the NE has so many municipalities with stringent renter protection laws that any owner must reckon with.

Stuff like that to measure what is successful and not.

Since most property managers don't have any skin in the game they don't bother to research what service providers are best and have the best value so see what how you can hold property managers accountable for being your intermediary or add performance measures into your agreement.

I was trying to describe the difference between Actual and Projected income from the property.In my current market, if the broker came with a property with an actual GRM of 12, but a reason he thinks income could rise so it'd be closer to a GRM of 10 within 12 months, I'm interested.You and I sing the same song on evaluating properties in this thread and others - I think the main point is that CAP rate is not a measure of whether something is a good investment.  

I dont live in the cheapest area of the metro by any measure, but I have a mortgage that is probably as cheap as many people in the midwest, because I chose to save a higher down payment, and chose to live in a house that was a lot cheaper than I could afford.

Being a good family person is not measured by time but rather the quality of the time.

Most of the folks that I represent are securing very manageable and reasonable loans with quite stringent qualifications.

I would add a way of measuring your return on investment like estimated resale or estimated operating income depending on your plan to flip or rent.  

They dug up the new driveway, dug down to the footing on the exterior of the house and pushed the wall back into place and braced for extra measure.