Shrinking population is something that would concern me if I was a property investor in Detroit.note I am not anti Detroit.  

Growing or shrinking?  

., that's typically a 9-12% guaranteeded ROI on your down payment.Tax write offs: the more the better.The more you focus on cash flow, the more the other 3 will shrink and vice versa.

I love to build, test, and shrink processes in business.

Section 8 is a shrinking program in most markets. 

Demographics, Texas is full of dying small towns and if it were not for immigration the state would be shrinking.3.

The net operating income (all expenses + taxes + insurance) of 12k sounds about right if this is an all-cash deal, but if financing is required, which is 25% down + CapEx, that beautiful 12k operating income shrinks down to around to 1.5k operating income which translates into $125 of monthly cashflow, and this is what gives me the 4.5 CoC that I was talking about.

Show proof of funds, Show your last 2 - 3 purchases made and how fast you closed.Unlike what everyone thinks.. while most wholesalers are obsessing about growing their buyer's list, the real serious ones try to shrink their buyer's list.I am about to start a new venture where I send people I trust here in CT a bunch of my leads, you monitor them, and we split the profits.

BUT, if housing becomes that cheap, how many renters will switch from being a renter to being a home owner thereby shrinking the rental market and thereby the demand and there goes your rental income. 

There is a day of reckoning coming for commercial debt as between a shrinking office market and multifamily notes coming due which will raise debt service to levels that will likely put many multi unit properties underwater as rents data have also flattened and more than 50% of consumers spend more than 30% of their income on rent which is adding pressure to rent increases even inspite of low rental inventory.