The Fed kept buying MBS for way, way too long and in turn created more artificial demand.

That's where the 1031 can help you without out a lot of artificial entity manipulation.  

One option would be take title in a trust then when you bring the new tenant buyer in you sell them beneficial interest in the land trust ...or you could do a lease option with them for 12 months with 5% down and just reduce the price as a artificial rent credit each renewal as joe teaches or setup a land contract with them and get a 10% down .

It is a bad investment when the only way it is positive is through cash injection to produce artificial positive cash flow.

Retirement is for people that hate their jobs and have this artificial date 30 years from now that they can leave the job they hate. 

I heard at a ULI event that CO has an artificially inflated SFR market due to a lack of supply in the first time buyer ($200K-$300K ) space, additional supply would typically be achieved through condo development.

Every other period in time, land closer to downtown has been worth more than land farther away, so this is more like a reversion to the historical norm than an anomaly.In terms of financing creating artificial demand, sure, it happens, but demand will always exist regardless of interest rates.

I personally don't see why rates can't stay artificially low and suppressed by the Fed for decades to come, seeing as even the government is addicted to cheap money, and can't afford a rate hike on their massive debt, and the Fed is deathly scared of housing crashes, and inflating our money into oblivion is part of their plan.

Forget 10% and 15% - - it all depends on the location and the property.I ran a 6-plex for 19yr (see profile) and made lots of ROI that was less than your artificial goals.  

Artificially low interest rates and super low supply of homes is what is driving the market up.