Specialized Property Management launched last year our proprietary AI/BI (artificial intelligence/business intelligence) platform.

Selling REO assets through an independent agent/broker creates an arm's length distance between us and the buyer so that we can't be accused of side dealing with our friends, exposing the foreclosed borrower to an artificial deficiency created by not exposing it to the open market.

Maybe rates will remain artificially low, but they can only move in one direction if and when they do move. 

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We found the major 6 cities of Texas to be either over priced or just very competitive from investors, both new and old, usually creating artificial demand and over spending.

All that being said, I see this as a very stable market rather than a sexy one offering dramatic appreciation to investors outside of the artificial bubble building building. 

Real Estate Investors such as myself have done very well by all the artificial/market manipulation.  

Regarding interest rates, they are actually not high historically...people just got used to artificially low rates over the past couple of years. 

Because of this, Austin has artificially created a denser population than the other big cities in Texas.  

Lower middle class zip code that would be dirt poor if not for Loma Linda University, Loma Linda Medical Center and a VA hospital. 92354 is literally surrounded by poverty.)I Paid $200k for a foreclosure 4 plex in 2000 (got 10% down payment back at close of escrow by artificially inflating purchase price to $224k)current value per zillow is $488k.