Do you need an intervention?

@Scott Weaner, Two major things keep rents from escalating as you think they should - Government intervention (Hellooooo CA) and wages.  

there are 2 types of structurs  for canadian investors one for active investments  active is something you are doing somthing to eg rehabs  and one for inactive investments  inactive are buy and hold properties  investments that need less hands on intervention.

Now I am really concerned and seriously considering holding some kind of intervention.

But I have to say that David makes a very good point about govt intervention; it never works any way.

The slope of socialism narrows and turns very slippery once government intervention and ownership of certain industries occurs.

In these cases, the specific sector was over-inflated and collapsed as faulty - maybe even fraudulent financial vehicles and/or practices were introduced to suck even more money out of the sector as it heated up.Just because the dot com sector eventually swallowed reality and fixed its fundamentals on value products/services, the energy sector resolved in the courts, and the housing sector flushed out its overly speculative practices (many of which were really bank-driven, primarily as loans issued to folks who had no business buying housing - and toxic mortgage packages created with weird names and no vehicle history to attract investments thus made with no due diligence and no 3rd party oversight - which took unprecedented government intervention and bailout across many sectors to fix), doesn't mean that the next sector downturn trigger doesn't lurk out there.What some call creativity or innovation is really just greed masked in packages so new and weird that due diligence is nearly impossible.  

I'm just spit-balling here, but some examples are: your inspection tells you that the grade of a property drains water toward the foundation rather than away from it, and this is causing cracks in the  concrete which are serious enough to require a structural engineer's intervention which will cost $X. 

No doubt Obama and his "justice" department will have some intervention. 

But government intervention in the form of Fannie and Freddie give us 30 year fixed loans.