Economic changes do this occasionally.

I personally believe (and this comes with several years experience glancing at the Google stock ticker and walking by the Cramer show occasionally on in the bedroom) the market wont be spectacular over the next couple years, sub 8% at least, where does a guy put his money? 

I have 7 section 8 tenants now and have allowed the program in my units for about 10 years.Every tenant I've had drama and/or damage and/or the occasional eviction has been a smoker.  

Pouring boiling water down the drain occasionally or after a clog may prevent stoppages in drains. 

I occasionally listen to podcasts and am still amazed at how the headlines never match up to the content.

For properties under $50,000 where HUD offers a flat $1250 commission to each agent the percentages are skewed but the number is somewhere in the minus $2500 + 5 to 6% as the minimum acceptable although occasionally a computer glitch(I assume the software was not set up for a flat fee commission) the counter will come back at minus $2500. 

Even as a brokerage, we occasionally have to deal with a false ad for one of our listed properties.  

Other areas I am seeing the occasional 2br 1ba in west town going for 220-240k which after amortization net $9000 a year on only $22,000 down at 10%.

and occasional vacancy its a 40 unit low rise. 

As an agent, I grew very tired of trying to find a broker that didn't disallow something - or several somethings, such as:A lot of brokers in Ohio don't permit property management - not that I want to be in that field, but occasionally something would come up where it was warranted (and worthy of my time), but alas, I had to refer the business elsewhere.I won't even get into the wholesale/assignment of contract topic - I was with another broker for a long time (also an investor) who allowed it, because he understood it.