With inflation reducing currency value to less than 10% of what it was before, do you think property owners are still holding rents at pre-inflation rates? 

My guess is that the crash comes from another industry or sector like currency. 

Then I went by a local charity store and bought a pair of shorts and some old shoes.

The ones with W/D seemed to rent faster but not for much if any more than the apartments with the pair.

I'm looking into purchasing my first investment property in south Texas and came across one that I'd like a second pair of eyes on. 

I was thinking if I can get the two condos for $150,000 - $160,000, I can borrow half of that from a family member, get a mortgage for the pair of properties, then sell one of the condos at the estimated ARV and repay my family member.

I am currently reading 'currency wars' and 'death of money' by same author -- interesting stuff.

With economies outside the US slowing, exports getting more expensive in their destination currencies and ever cheaper (in exchange rate) outsourcing costs it’s hard to see how we’re going to generate much wage growth and/or inflation that would spur the Fed to raise rates materially.

This of course assumes that there were a sufficient amount of like minded investors looking at the same two markets to drive the supply demand curves to balance.A real number that you might consider is the current inflation rate for the currency you're investing.  

Soon after I discovered leveraged currency trading where margin requirements were low and I was hooked.