Lending standards are significantly tighter and there are many fewer marginal homeowners in possession of homes now.The Great Recession was more likely an unusual confluence of events that worked to the benefit of rental properties.  

You are right to be skeptical of their comment regarding it being unusual.

Wise: probably not, unless you are really good or come across an unusual situationfor more discussion see also: http://www.biggerpockets.com/forums/93/topics/1439...and several other recent threads

But maybe we are unusual.

It might sound unusual but it's the business.Evictions: That's tough.

Easy to remember, it doesn't spell anything unusual, and when I hand it down to my kids, it'll mean something to them

In order to address this, we aired out the home opening all windows and had the AC technician come in and check for anything unusual in the air conditioning system, we had housekeeping come in and reclean the home.

,I'll let some investors chime in as well, but I'd say that is not unusual for most deals that are floating around the market right now.

If there's no rental income, there's no income for us either.Thirty days on the market isn't very unusual this time of year, but things are picking up and most of our homes are off the market within 2-4 weeks.

I just move from a market with many sophisticated buyers, a place where the 1% of the 1% buy, and it was not unusual for them to request to withhold the sales price.