The STR lenders' base their decision making on the Airdna statistics.

Of course, fear sells, no one buys good news.What We Are SeeingBelow is 13 month trailing statistics on all single family properties that conform to our property profile.

Does anyone pay close attention to this statistic?

This is an example of why statistics can be very misleading if you average apples and oranges.As an example of segment specific results vs metro averages, for the last 15 years, we've targeted a specific tenant pool, and the properties they are ready, willing, and able to rent.

My team has a methodology to run screens on sub-tertiary markets -- Micropolitan Statistical Areas.The state with the most MSAs in our Top 20 (with 4)?

What people don't talk about is that most markets where 2% is readily available, crime and vacancy are high and appreciation is zero.The only thing stopping unlimited appreciation in the Mountain West is water supply and air quality.Last year I spent some time playing with the House Price Index (HPI) and put together this chart for our metropolitan statistical area:In the last 20 years, neither our MSA, the state, or region has ever been at or below the national average.  

Previous commenters raising the point that interest rates are extremely low statistically speaking make an excellent point: being heavier on cash than normal might be a wise play at this point in time.

(I had it tested) and she got lucky statistically speaking the wife goes bad before the vasectomy!

It is always a moving target based on so many different variations in what statistics were pulled.

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