Section 8 Bloghttps://www.biggerpockets.com/blogs/9232/55313-intro-to-section-8---your-perceptions-vs-my-realities

This creates great opportunity as well as traps/siren songs.

What I expect is to further my business, be introduced to interesting people/opportunities (doesn't matter if I don't make any money) and to enhance my perceptive.

How do you manage the perception a market has on your house flipping business?

So, you need to work on your perception.

There is also a big revitalization project in the Portland area, but I think there is a perception of that part of town and it's relative distance to the other areas already mentioned that make it a hard sell.

Interest and vacancy rates continue to remain low (for now) and the common perception seems to be that virtually anyone with some spare cash (or a self directed IRA) can fix, flip, reposition, rehab, swap, wholesale, lease to purchase, buy/hold, etc.

Proximity and identification of higher worth asset pockets becomes difficult/volatile to predict.Political environment and societal expectations that can be borderline ideological with regards to the aboveIf the crime does not get under control (see the above thoughts on education, gini, poverty, etc) this will weigh on perceptions and asset values for years to comeOn the upside:Indy is positioned well as a logistics hub which fueled growth, and it has a reasonably diversified economy.There is access to high quality higher education in the area.I will not invest in Indy although I did look at it awhile back.

The perception gap of what constitutes a qualified buyer from an actual qualified buyer is getting bigger.

This will tell you that agents like them because of prices, perception, etc and that PMs like them because of ease of rent, quality of tenant, etc.