Sadly enough the rebuild will stimulate the AB economy but the loses are still overwhelming. 

You don't need real estate appreciation to tell you that, you can see the signs elsewhere.Mortgage rates have been at an all time low to stimulate economic growth and now everyone's talking about how rates are going to be going up.  

Some MF groups are bringing their own equity into the game but they co-invest alongside the LPs i.e.

I heard from 2 different people today that in the recent stimulous funds, 95% loans are available for investment (apt?

Consider that most LPs want the sponsor to have skin in the game, +/-10% is a number you see regularly, and figure that the amount of your own money that you want to risk on your own first deal is equal to about 10% of the total cost of your first property including organizational costs, acquisition costs and reserves.

And "bank-owned open houses" in highly visible and easily accessible locations tend to stimulate the most buyer foot traffic.

Our lower home prices are also attracting tech companies to the area stimulating job growth, and the city has set aside a $10 million dollar fund to bring tech companies to the area.

We can see China is having issues with monies, rates etc and Eastern Europe has Brexit which all of this might just stimulate housing in the US.

They are in the LPS pipeline now in most areas but they will sell for just about anyone.

This is how the first six months went until I stumbled upon the BiggerPockets podcast while I was looking for something more mentally stimulating than Bill Burr’s podcast.