It's a decent place to invest, but a continuously crowded field with shrinking foreclosure portfolio.cash flow will be decent, appreciation is little to none. it's a great place to get started but long term prospects are limited. 

I especially hate all these guys trying to get newbies to invest in their turnkey operation in terrible, shrinking markets.

If it's a currency, massive appreciation is a recipe for massive deflation and a shrinking economy where people hoard money and don't invest it and nothing gets done.

Is the town shrinking drastically?

But we also have a shrinking labor pool, heavily engineered structures that need to withstand snow loads and earthquakes at the same time, an extreme climate on top of high costs for land, and BMPs and fire codes to protect the beauty of the area.  

Maybe the area will turn around, is it just in a lull, is population increasing, what do the demographics look like, what are he cap rate trends (market growing or shrinking(aka supply and demand)).

I can assure you with double digit unemployment coming, that the field of qualified buyers is quickly shrinking.

Maybe they are in his HOw to training company.. a lot of those companies are shrinking ..

The city’s population peaked around 1950, and it’s been shrinking ever since.

Lenders shrink the box up pretty good in their bottom bucket GUC programs.