Many people focus on the obvious stuff like raising rents increasing economic occupancy and so on.

Economics?

Choose cities in safe and economically diversified areas with above-average income and population growth. 

hey all, I'm a small time investor setting my affairs in order in anticipation of 1) retirement and 2) a global and/or national fiscal crisis.

One argument has been that homesharing is a cause of the housing crisis here in LA. 

You can compute the actual economic vacancy once you see the seller's actual numbers.  

I am currently in my last year of college at Hood College where I am majoring in Business Finance, and minoring in Economics.

I do agree with @Erin Donlan on the limited economic impacts, but this is just devastating to so many that were affected, especially the students nearing completion of their coursework.

I still have baseboard heating so even though the ski season would get good utilization, the economics don't work with the inefficient heating setup.French Broad (local power co) is running a program to sell ductless split unit heat pumps at cost and will finance them.  

Choose cities in safe and economically diversified areas with above-average income and population growth.