You all are - which is why I came to the forum for help.I got my information about the allocation rate from the blog, and the book on real estate tax strategies said you can use a history of mileage to establish a pattern for expenses.

In a few of the recent posts that I came across, there is a recurring pattern that I have observed.

The pandemic has tightened inventory further, with Austin dropping to 1.7 months and the metro area dropping a whole month down to match Austin at 1.7 months of supply.So far, then, the Austin area market is maintaining its familiar overall pattern of extremely low listing inventory, sky-high buyer demand, and steadily rising home prices.

There was a pattern & we decided that we had enough.

Is waiting just a PATTERN that has shown up in your life over and over?

@Julie Hill what @Jason Cory said above is 100% correct, the zoning has most likely changed around the home and cities do this to create development patterns that they want to see. 

From what I can see, only a small percentage of properties are actually selling, relative to the number listed.We are around the same area (LA here) so this caught my attention because I also noticed a pattern on a bunch of re-listings for the same property with (as you mentioned) ridiculously small decreases on the price.  

Inventory was down in Austin slightly compared to this time last year at 1.6 months.So, despite the pandemic and shelter-in-place orders, April 2020 continued the familiar overall pattern in the Austin metro of low inventory, high buyer demand, and rising home prices.

Technically you'd have to run an IRR analysis and then compare on that basis.When you focus on one type of property in one town you will quickly start to see tha patterns.

Over many years I found SFR attract a more stable 'clientele' whereas those in MF's act more like 'inmates', that may exhibit classic passive aggressive, agnostic behavior patterns between each other.