We have underbuilt housing for 14 years following 2008 and now we are 3-4 million homes short (some banks say 5), that will take a decade to catch up as a nation.  

Read Beginner’s Guide to help you get started: http://www.biggerpockets.com/real-estate-investingBest of luck here at BP Nation.

The position she just accepted is a 13k raise.Also, Covid really disrupted my work record, (we moved here knowing no one the day national emergency was declared and they put a hiring freeze on).

That is why leasing brokers like new develop deals where national tenant paying 40 to 60 bucks a foot in rent value for 200k plus a year in rent.A bigger question is WHEN the leasing fee is DUE.

After the fact I tried to search the national Pacer bankruptcy database, but could find no mention of the property's owner.

A LOT of distrress is leading to mergers and firings, in just the last few weeks, this happened: (Big credit to @NewsLambert)Lower to acquire Universal Lending retail and wholesale operations (11/1/23)Trustar Mortgage acquired by Archer Mortgage, LLC (11/1/23)People’s Bank of Commerce to exit residential mortgage lending (10/27/23)BMO Bank cutting 228 jobs in Northern California (10/25/23)Homestar Financial to wind down operations (10/25/23)City National Bank layoffs in Los Angeles total 71 (10/23/23)Hometown Lenders layoffs (10/12/23)First Savings Bank to lay off 135 mortgage workers (10/4/23)Wesley Mortgage absorbs competitor Colten Mortgage (10/4/23)Cenlar to lay off 85 in Ewing, NJ (10/2/23)Rithm Capital to acquire Computershare Mortgage Services Inc. (10/2/23)Wells Fargo cut 525 jobs in South Carolina (9/28/23)Better Mortgage lays off additional employees (9/22/23)The Graystone Company has acquired Direct Mortgage (9/13/23)Flyhomes to purchase certain assets of Home Sale Assured (9/13/23)Divvy Homes to cut 95 jobs in San Francisco (9/11/23)Farmers-Merchants Bank to sell three branches to focus on core mortgage business (9/11/23)It goes on…..The mortgage industry is in a starkly deep recession.And RIP refinances, unless you are holding an even higher interest rate loan (like a construction/bridge loan or hard money, or perhaps you just fixed your credit.

While it can happen there have been times where we have barely kept pace with the overall national trends on appreciation. 

And, I'm not sure where it connects with what you wrote, honestly...The National Association of Realtors statistics is 75% of new real estate agents drop out in the 1st year, and 90% by the 3rd year. 

Forty years ago we had gurus, the difference was that the gurus then weren’t anywhere near as polished, their sales/marketing system wasn’t any where near as refined, and that the most they ever hit you for was “a complete system represented by 3 workbooks and 24 cassette tapes’ valued and sold nationally for $999 but if you order in the next 24 hours you can have all this for $499”.

Just like ALDI, just like most national Tenants who are in the biz of RE and just happen to also sell burgers, groceries, etc.