@Andrew Ware  Irvine is a rare place even if markets retreated a bit.. just don't sell in a retreat.. rents will hold tenants will be there.. and wait for the next cycle.were investors get hurt is when teannts are bad.. they have turn overs were their units are trashed and or rents stop and they have to do protracted evictions..in Irvine unless your totally asleep at the switch your not going to have those lovely experinces you will have in lower price point or to use the A B C D analogy  C and D class rentals.

Then it will become a weekend/Airbnb retreat for when we need to come to town.The second house is a 3/1 1100 sq ft.

Neither of us works in real estate - I'm a yoga teacher and he's a research chemist.

A place to keep my stuff when traveling, a place to crash hard after a long trip, a place to retreat to, and hopefully a place that pays for itself.I would like to house hack in the Phoenix area for the following reasons:1.

Too bad you just missed the annual CashFlowDepot Panama Retreat - it had training on all the above plus much more.

So, while competition for homes may be beginning to rebalance, don’t expect to see home values retreat to pre-pandemic prices – especially here in Tennessee.

Advertise the house as a Bikram Yoga studio and start raking in the big bucks.If anyone has a quality A/C guy that you trust - please pass along their information : )

When their enemies would see them coming, most would retreat out of fear of what they looked like.

But you can get rid of two potential head wreckers (There is nothing worse on this planet than an HOA in a retreating real estate market).

I think what happens though is if you have a lull or leveling off and a small retreat then the sentiment goes I am going to wait for it to bottom.. so fence sitters get a sore butt either way.. waiting for it to bust or wont pull the trigger until they are darn sure it bottomed out.