Decreasing liquidity to an extent can help save you from yourself.

If it's $100/ft to do 2 stories, does the 3rd story increase that cost or decrease it due to not needing foundation work?

The article focuses in particular in Chicago, which has the added headwind of decreasing population, though some people in the comments say that this is a "tale of two cities" issue, where population and rents are rising in certain parts of the city and declining in others.Also, so far, rents continue to grow in smaller cities . . .Here's the link.

Holding a flip for thatblong really decreases your annualized return on investment too so consider that. 

December statistics saw a decrease in house buying power, as reported by First American's Real House Price Index, this decrease has been occurring by about 2.1 percent per year but November to December saw a decrease of 5.1 percent.

I had to borrow against my equity via a HELOC to keep the ship afloat, and when the market decreased the prices and my inflated equity dried up...Well, let's just say it was not pretty.So I can believe that you have done all your due diligence in outlining the numbers and analyzing the deal, and like you say, since you don't need to do a deal just because you want one, why not pass and continue to look for an investment that works for you financially and personally?

So, when a 5% earned income tax cut comes along, the wealthy are already optimizing for their tax burden (likely by a decreased amount of earned income), and it's very unlikely that they'll actually be able to benefit from the full 5% earned income credit without negatively impacting their tax burden somewhere else.

Would you evict her when you take ownership to decrease you risk?

If the HVAC installer was worth his salt, he installed dampers on the branch lines to increase/decrease air flow depending on how the system worked.

In the same way that leverage + price increases led to a spiral of appreciation, I can see price decreases resulting in more and more mortgage defaults that create a downward spiral in prices.