Most of us are happy to help with answers.There are, on occasion, a few who simply prefer to argue or raise blood pressure, but, that is the case anywhere.

That said, I do believe the big banks/firms have learned how to slowly drip the inventory into the market which gives rise to the least downward pressure on prices.

i don't want to get too political, but unfortunately, business is politics...my biggest complaint owning apartments was how the government would support tenants til death and shun the landlords...have had several code violations properties, where i fix everything, but tenants do the damage again, and we go back to environmental court with the code inspector..even when i have pics and proof, it's still an expensive pain lawyering up when the government provides free attorneys to tenants..i guess i don't have it as bad as others...in some states it takes months to evict, and in others if the tenants don't pay the city water bill, the government can lien your property...all this does is put more pressure on landlords and take responsibilty off of tenants..to me, that is a huge pain!

Sewer lines are not pressurized so as long as they don't leak and waste moves along, you are good.Rob K you are right about permits, I mostly will not pull one for repairs unless its already in violation.

If you stick with the same brand you can reuse the mounting brackets.

It may be a case of the blind leading the blind.That and we don't need Steve B's blood pressure sky rocketing, he has knowledge to disseminate!

Price pressure eventually spreads to the cheaper neighborhood, and the price gap closes to 0%-20%.I've seen this general scenario play out many times over the last 30 years in Denver.Once you own several homes in the cheap neighborhood, you can even try to help "tip" the neighborhood toward gentrification by improving or redeveloping your properties.New light rail lines tend to help a neighborhood's values.

., that's an interesting possibility (that the home sale is forced by business or other financial pressures)... thanks for mentioning it!

We use a lot of split systems here, which means the condensers are smaller, and frequently they will be mounted rooftop, or second story height.

There are a large number of pending foreclosures that will affect the market over the next couple of years, putting further pressure on inventory levels.