As far as Landlord expenses, you want to ask the Broker to provide the T-12 to see how the property has performed and then you take a look at the T-3 to see where its trending.

Not only will finding a buyer be easier in a high demand market but your chances of appreciation are greater especially if you can get into a market that has strong economic indicators where cap rate are compressing or trending down.

Baltimore City makes it difficult for being a landlord and the city does not have good overall statistics when I look at trends.

I will buck the trend a bit.

Townhouses, Single Family and more premium properties can go for more but when dealing with under $150,000 properties or small multifamily properties those rent numbers can ballpark you on your underwriting for Washington County, MD and Franklin County, PA.I have been stuck at home but evaluating nearly every property in the cities i look at regularly, i have been using Redfin to pull sales numbers for the last 2-3 years for zip codes in those counties to find trends and help me ballpark my ARV (confirmed by my realtor ultimately).

Hi @Gregory Cudzilo - I would talk with realtors in the NOVA/DC area to get a feel for which direction areas are trending. 

Unlike other real estate investments, apartments are typically tied to residential trends and demographics.

I've noticed a trend lately where it seems that a lot of people got confused as to what a preferred return actually is. 

From the Columbus MLS there's significant data of a cyclical trend where prices go down from that summer. 

That's a red flag for a scam.If I got $1500 every time I talked to a biggerpockets.com member about something far fetched such as putting 3.5% down on a $1.5m fourplex in the hottest real estate market in the country where you're up against 25% down as the norm, I'd just do that all day and not bother actually closing any loans.