No my friends.People need to seriously step up their analysis game.. because if they do not... people like me in their market WILL destroy them!

While the poor and middle classes haven't seen their income rising much over the last decades, they're surviving thanks the deflation resulting from technological progress and ever cheaper goods being produced in countries like China or Vietnam (although that has been destroying many of their jobs). 

(This can destroy newbies who ignore its effect on income).If you have 1 house and it's vacant you have a 100% vacancy rate, if you have 10 houses it's 10%.

Don is pissed because he tries hard to be really credible on here, but he got his ego destroyed with a recent post that he just couldn't comprehend till an other user had to really break it down for him. 

Overall though, I didn't see any buildings completely destroyed or anything like that  

If it's a major storm and destroys hundreds or thousands of homes, then it could have an impact on that particular market.

We then bought a home destroyed by fire, built a new home, lived in it for 2 years, and flipped it. 

Make sure its repairable.Make sure there are funds from the tenants or rents to cover all this.And remember what this will also bring... destroyed moldings, carpet, walls, flooring, etc.I just closed on the above SFR last Thursday.

If left unchecked wood destroying fungi will promote deterioration of the wood floor system.

Other investors have told me: buy close to the $200,000 price point because property values are unlikely to take a huge drop (not as far to fall) unlike buying a $400,000 (or more) property but buying the more expensive property you'll less likely have tenant management issues (e.g. someone paying $2500 in rent will less likely destroy your property than someone paying $800 to $1000 rent).