People are addicted to cheap money and it is the easiest way out of a self induced recession. 2's sounds a bit rose tinted glasses to me, but we will definitely see 3's in 12-18 months.

The US real estate market has CRASHED only ONE time in history; and as we all hopefully can agree that was a sub prime mortgage collapse induced, the rest were periods of stagnation, with prices going sideways.

This is why I believe in tenant checks every month.My onsite manager is watching all the tenants daily.The bums have been evicted and left.Now I am getting good quality tenants in.When you explain what is required when signing the lease the tenants that want a nice place don't mind.

Bummed we went to his office to scour the MLS as he had another agent in his office that had a property listed that was dropping bi-weekly.

I feel a little bummed that we missed out on so many other great deals in the area back when we got this house.

It sounds like you got scammed for a placement fee (I assume that's all the realtor was hired to do) and you have a bum tenant who may need to go. 

I understand the emotional nature of your statements, and how popular outlet's are pumping such emotional messaging to induce actions.

It is not a place I would feel comfortable carrying a lot of cash since there are so many bums around.

I teach college as my full-time gig and get really bummed out when kids put limits on themselves, especially when it's really easy stuff.

For example, gov. can take actions to induce greater affordability, as they did in early 2,000's and "pow" we'd be off and running.