We are in a once-in-a-lifetime depression for the housing industry.

We have already replaced a tub, re-enforced a floor and have noticed some depressions in other parts of the floor.

In its response, UDF said that a hedge fund had built “a significant short position” of more than 4 million shares of its publicly traded REIT, and that it believed the fund was “trying to unlawfully profit by manipulating and depressing the price” of the shares—but it did not name the fund.Shorting 4 million shares of one company held by a hedge fund the size of Hayman Capital is a bit different than, "Shorting Real Estate".

There’s a moderately sized town I invest in that was once a old steel town with 35k population now it’s about 14k and the real estate market allows for houses to be very cheap , it’s depressed but no war  zone ,yet the renters are plentiful and the profit potential numbers are crazy .

The physical test will give you that personal viewpoint necessary to complete the analysis.Even in depressed markets you should look for properties in good locations.

The physical test will give you that personal viewpoint necessary to complete the analysis.Even in depressed markets you should look for properties in good locations.

So far one of the 15 units was a "night before closing surprise vacancy" and one more tenant is running for the hills, which gives us some unfortunately depressed cashflow for months 1 and 2, but a great ability to replace those with ideal tenants at full market value.

The only issue we've run into is that before STRs were regulated in our city, the competition was so heavy that nightly rates were depressed to the point that they frequently fell below LTR rates. 

Well, a pandemic is Great Depression-level stress on institutions and on families and breadwinners.

I know from personal experience how daunting and depressing a big, general action can be.