The rents could even deflate as the hot markets tend to go to cold.Some markets look like a roller coaster on a graph and other have a small incline and a small decline.

So as an investor here, it doesn’t particularly bother me that Detroit has gone on this roller coaster ride since the other areas are showing very positive signs.Is the recent appreciation data/success above most likely because the market previously dipped 50 years ago and then again in 2008?

WA doesn't typically cash flow much, so need to be careful there, but like if you were buying in the Midwest (a lot of west coasters do) and you were getting some decent level of cash flow per month, you could buy that rental property and use the income from that to pay down the mortgage on your primary home in exactly the way you were saying you would do it with that $900/month.

After watching the roller coaster ride of my work 401K, I decided to halt putting any more money in, and concentrate on putting that money towards debt reduction and new properties.

It’s just nobody can exactly predict when the tipping point is reached and the roller coaster starts heading down - unstoppably.

It was a roller coaster!

A "conservative insurance company".By summer/autumn 2008 each Sunday night was a roller coaster: which bank was going under, which clients would be impacted.

The problem is that many of the 'coaster peeps' (people that live on the coasts) are looking ONLY at ROI.  

Real Estate can be a wild roller coaster ride!

I love reading about East coasters.