It’s not every day that accusations of rent manipulation make headlines, and I wanted to understand how this impacts the millions of Americans struggling with housing costs.

She truly struggled to answer my questions, she has no idea what she's doing. 

That's usually how it goes with lenders that struggle with spelling. 

It's heavily dependent on the types of properties and the effectiveness your processes and systems.If you don't have systems and processes in place, you may struggle to manage 30 on your own.

If they are struggling then money they spend in one area affects their ability to pay other bills like rent.

I'm in very similar position, looking to start my RE investing journey around Boston area and facing struggle to cash out on my stock portfolio to try to get a MF, that using BP analysis tools, will be barely break even...even in slightly farther surrounding areas. wishing us both luck though! 

When landlords struggle to protect private property rights, they may either leave the market entirely or pass the increased costs on to tenants.

The problem many of us run into is being in New England, many of the markets are high cost, high appreciation markets that we either can't get pre qualified for, or even after moving out will struggle to cash flow.Another big constraint is that many of us have W-2 jobs in engineering that require some days in the office, and these types of higher paying jobs are primarily in major cities (most of us are in the Boston area).Lastly, a lot of us have significant others that may be less interested in living somewhere "random" because it makes sense as an investment.

We’ve seen investors struggle when properties are in areas more suited for first-time homebuyers than renters.

However, I still struggle to understand the art of estimating rehab costs.