dealing with investors you talking about investor sentiment and such.it really depends on what type of project your talking about.. if its just rental property that's pretty easy.but if your talking about development or flipping then you cant have blinders on  you do need to  try to anticipate market changes.. we have done that by limited debt so if we do have a change we ride it out no problembut to take on max debt in certain segments of real estate in certain markets you do need to be more than Hey my renters wont leave  LOL

A big segment of the population is in denial of the need to transition housing to meet the demand of buyers with good jobs, young families, low down payments, and high student loan debt.

There is a large segment of tenants who do not have couches and other furniture to call their own.

It is best to mix some of the new owner occupied segments with absentee owners since the absentees are getting a lot of offers in the mail in most markets.

But that leads me into my next segment.

@Tom Ivezaj investors make (and lose) money on all segments of REI-no rights and no wrongs.

There is another fairly large segment of young parents with busy schedules who want an au pair suite (likely not renters though).

@John Corey, @Andy Mirza, @Gil Ganz and @Martin Saenz - Very interesting insights.I think that my personal opinion is a merge of all.Focus on what you do best is important, but in parallel always keep your investments bucket diversified.Few months ago I saw one of Tony Robbins fascinating lectures and he gave an example of a well known business man who went up all the way to wealth of few hundreds of M of $, lost all and came back all the way up, and when asked him what did he learn out of it his main lesson was about the important of diversify your investments and not focus only on one segment.

It's hard to stand out.There are some owner-occupied segments with people who share motivating factors for selling their home.Seniors with Long-time Ownership: often ready to downsize or transition to assistance.Homeowners with Low Financial Stability Scores (FSS): Struggling financially and likely ready to cash in on their asset.Both these categories have additional advantages in that they probably don’t haven’t been updated and may have deferred maintenance.

Not sure if you are in this service territory, but this is the first hit I found on Google for Michigan based efficiency programs: https://www.consumersenergy.com/residential/save-money-and-energy/rebates/heating-and-coolingThis Old House had a pretty good segment on the tech, showing all the various permutations included "ducted ductless" systems: https://www.youtube.com/watch?