This includes bylaws, extra screening/approval of rentals/tenants, and HOA fees which can simply decimate returns.I know that condos can have lower prices, but in the few markets that I've really studied, the lower prices have not been low enough to offset the limitions mentioned above.

Investing wise, if you play by the numbers, they don't change much market to market except the decimal place gets moved to the left or to the right.

This would seriously harm you if you were leveraged.Again if you really consider this (hyper-inflation and resulting complete breakdown of society) to be an eminent threat, you should be investing in some land to "bug-out" to and learning how to survive the collapse of civilization as we know it.As a rule, inflation makes the rich richer and the poor poorer and decimates the middle class.

Unfortunately this is a scam that runs rampant through the rental industry and a large part of the reason why Craigslist has quickly been decimated by more credible competitors (name Facebook) where the poster is required to have a public profile @Joe P.I will say that @Troy Sheets' and @Marco Anemone's situations sound a bit more extreme, but honestly it's probably just an example where the scammers "won". 

Retail space has been decimated.  

. $280k x 5.22% = $14616 (the other $24 is just a rounding error from not carrying out the decimals)There is literally no other correct way to calculate cap rate.https://www.biggerpockets.com/...

There are literally thousands of small landlords suffering in silence because their loss of thousands/tens of thousands isn't enough money to hire a good lawyer to take on the state, yet their savings, years of hard work is being decimated.  

ya the debate over Debt V Equity etc is a constant one you have math.. and those that are spread sheet junkies and look at returns in % to the 3rd decimal tend to focus on max leverage refi till you die.. 

Worst still, entire industry models' are getting decimated in mass, cinemas is one example.At this point, only saving grace for people like me and 'others' I talk to on an honest basis is our low leverage.

I live in Monterey County and besides the massive forest fires, mud slides that literally wipe out entire sections of highway and decimate whole communities, and of course the occasional earthquake, it's a lovely place to live.