I use in in my rental properties for flooring, concrete, artificial grass, etc. 

Many areas see placing an artificially manipulated lien on real estate as filing a false lien.

It has been artificially stalled, but the correction will complete like it has for every commodity market man has ever created and real estate will revert to its historical mean.

Originally posted by Ben Kevan:... purchases of the bottom side are hard to get (FBI just ran through our sheriffs auctions and will hopefully put an end to the price fixing that's been going on)....You do realize that the bid rigging at those foreclosures kept the prices artificially LOW - so expect that future prices might actually be higher at the foreclosure auctions ...See link on this (and my comments) in the thread below:http://www.biggerpockets.com/forums/41/topics/59549-foreclosure-auction

Title companies are only concerned with the appearance of fraud which is illegal whereby investers get together to artificially increase the perceived value of a property by rapidly reselling property in order to mortgage it to the hilt and then walk away.

Using an artificially enhanced 2005 value to justify making a sound investment decision in today's real estate climate holds no water.I congratulate you on your success.

With the increase in Ai " artificial Intel." people are becoming less and less of a requirement for business to survive.I believe that there are that many less sustainable jobs out there.

Of course there are other avenues of finance including commercial mortgages, portfolio mortgages and private mortgages not encumbered by some artificial and arbitrary "number".  

Not to mention this also allows for an increased "preferred return" which might make one investment look artificially more attractive than another. 

I am a huge fan of numbers too but in this case the demand could easily be artificial.