Well, perhaps I can count on a some help from the HOA if my tenants decided to park their cars on the front lawn besides to let the weeds grown on it?

When I arrived I found HUGE holes in a couple of walls, various wires within the walls had been cut, and some lengths removed, 5 interior doors that had been kicked in, truly nasty carpet, dead lawn, a kitchen that a hand grenade would have improved, a hole through the sheetrock and brick where a window/wall A/C had been removed, etc, etc.

When you look at comparables you see an artificial market that is on the tail end due to the lack of funds now.

This particular episode actually showed the builder/homeowner having the lawn "spray painted" green (dead lawn) the day before an actual scheduled open house.

Anything done to prop up home value is completely artificial, dishonest, and blatant manipulation.

My property is in the Dallas Metroplex and everyone knows how the soil and foundations are a problem to begin with.If a tenant is responsible for keeping the lawn watered and the irrigation clock was turned off every time I checked it.

Anything done to prevent natural market driven occurrences will lead to "artificial wealth" and inflation.

If the local ordinace requires a lawn, but the builder didn't put one in, count on several thousand for it.

As we have seen a couple of years ago artificially cheap money drives artificially high demand and prices.

It's sad to see the promo pictures they use of some of these homes over a year or so back and then see the current reality of dead lawns and bad pools.