The bad news is that luxury houses saw major rent compression and areas without employment diversity and population growth weren't so lucky -- some of those areas are still fighting their way back to pre-2008 levels.-  While buy-and-hold investors were able to weather 2008 in terms of market rents and occupancy, other types of investors got hit by the drop in real estate prices. 

This is a shift event, much like the internet was a shift event, but more compressed and significant than any previously, if you think that doesn't generate opportunities, well then nothing anyone says will matter as even 1yr later you will be screening "bah-humbug". 

Even though interest rates are higher, note yields have been compressed.4.

Compressed caps and hundreds of new syndicators as commercial credit catches a cold. .. could get interesting.  

At Wharton we learned: 0% bank interest means a lot of wealthy individuals and insurance cos are investing their money in class A locations and assets, effectively parking their money at inflation and causing demand for these properties and historic cap rate compression.

This is the way a bank or any competent appraiser would value it, no other way by those groups ... you as an investor might value it based on income, and an insurance company may value it based on replacement value, but when it comes to buy, sell, or refinance transactions, the market value is determined by sold comps.I won't get into the details of commercial property valuation, because it apparently offends Master Swanny's delicate sensibilities, but will only say that it depends upon the NOI the property produces and the market CAP rate, which is determined by sold comparable commercial properties in the same market around the same time, and yes, market CAP rates do expand and compress based on market forces outside of the investor's control, so multifamily investors are not somehow immune to market forces or comps.

Like others said, retirement timeline is compressed and analysis paralysis is not your friend but it can be done

Right now, inventory is so compressed, prices are strong, so I would have to potentially deploy that $130k in myore expensive lesser yielding property.

It increased the compression ratio. 

Compressing my rehab time frame considerably.