Hards money is great but it is volatile.

I think that it's being overlooked as an investment opportunity because the market has been so volatile with oil production coming and going but vacancies are becoming harder to find and quality properties are trending upward.

It is less than ideal of a situation so that is what makes this so volatile - how this comes across to buyers. 

Hard to answer if you're investing in multi since multi is one of the most volatile REI you can use. 

I have some investment experience in stocks and cryptocurrencies but the volatility and risk involved in both have motivated me to look for other ways to invest, so for the past 6 months to a year I've been looking into various options.

Plus Oklahoma doesn’t have much volatility in a crash like 2008!

Stock market volatility is all the more reason to have cash flowing real estate.

We're still in a historically low rate period and I hear conventional rates have taken a dip lately, but 5.75% is a pretty solid rate.Rates change daily, sometimes hourly depending on market volatility, so how do you know what the rate  should be on any given day? 

There are a handful of houses that would seem to work for me and work numbers-wise, but they have been on the market for almost a year, and in this volatile market, it makes me wary of making an offer...Any suggestions/advice would be appreciated!

This volatile REIT is not the norm in that space.