That said, if the purchase price were closer to $150k and rents were around $1,100, I might be interested in that when considering other factors (proximity to me, market conditions, etc)  and knowing rents tend to increase over time. 

To a certain extent, I may be majoring on the minors, but who knows, there are a lot of nuts out there.  

Merced went nuts with the last boom and there were many foreclosures.

Just wanted to make sure I wasn't nuts here :)

As a consequence, people tend to either not set back the heat or overshoot (set it too high) thinking that will heat the room faster.  

One was so bowed it had huge bolts with 10' square plates held together with 4inch nuts!!!

We tend to purchase below market singles, duplexes, triplexes and quads.  

LinkedIn is a network, but people tend to worry too much about connections rather than content.

Phillip:Thankfully, the garburator/garbage disposal is predominately a US affection.Dollars and cents aside, there are many other reasons not to use them:1) they increase the amount of organics that reach the sewage treatment plant which, in turn, increases the plants consumption of oxygen ... which, often results in more active bacterial matter being flushed/released from the system into waterways;2) increase the amount of solid residue which needs to be removed from the treatment plant and disposed (usually in landfills);3) they have been linked with the increase in toxicity of the water supply (this is not a fault of the machine itself, but rather the user); 4) they also tend to increase per-household water consumption.Under sink garbage disposals are no longer permitted in many locations.As a landlord with student rentals, they are simply an invitation for more service calls and higher repair costs.

we have an LLC in Washington State (which doesn't have any income tax--until the nuts in Seattle try once again to make people who work hard "pay their fair share" so the lazy people can smoke weed in Pike Place at lunch time during the week..seriously happened once again today!!!)