And so it is artificially inflating the NOI and making the cap rates look higher.

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. 

ReAlpha may be able to analyze lots of deals in the MLS'a via Artificial Intelligence, but when it comes to actually getting sellers to agree to your AI's price, you basically have an 'iBuyer' type situation, and this market just isn't supporting iBuyers.  

The higher bids take me into negative cash flow scenarios :/ Then taget cheaper properties and put a larger down payment.The fact is everyone always views some constraint that theyve artificially put in front of them.

Although right now it seems like things are fairly stable and I believe that our government is artificially propping up this economy.

This is why they are keeping rates artificially low even in the face of INFLATION.

>True that RE also averaged higher than 3-4% in the last decade from our artificially created boom and corrupt politicians and government, but thats where the market shines, VOO or whatever index, is the same for everyone.

It’s a small dent compared to the effect of prolonged artificially low interest rates, and the hollowing out of American middle class jobs.  

We're facing an artificial contraction that can be remedied almost overnight(under 6mos).

This is actually obvious since our knowledge resides at home.b) We lose sight of the fact that investing in our home market, whether the US or Canada , is much riskier than we think as prices have been inflated by 15 years of artificial cheap money printing from the central banks, which probably won't be repeated ever again.