Will you still be happy with your investment if your $2500 shrinks due to these?

While these are shrinking in Indianapolis every year, there are still areas that are heavily distressed.

Brick and mortar retail will still exist, but shrink dramatically and so will the need for parking.

Population and jobs shrinking dramatically the last few years.

I'll bet you never read what I just wrote in any motivational real estate book" My shrink always told me, "you are an idealist, but we don't live in an ideal world".

We can always grow or shrink the res as we get closer

And 60% of them have 5, 10 or more offers.We need demand to shrink to a fraction of what we have now, either because buyers don't want to buy anymore (and prefer to rent) or they already have bought.

Unfortunately I think cash flow is shrinking in many areas.

In the last year it's closer to 15-30%, so 8% is actually a discount (assuming your market isn't shrinking).Sellers don't need logic to sell, trying to make them sell on logic will fail every time.

If you look at how investment properties perform, the return starts to shrink each year.