Add to that the pressure put on our housing by the Covid refugees relocating here, and now those fleeing larger cities for smaller ones due to crime.

All it takes is one fire with a renter without insurance or one methhead deciding to use your house for illegal childcare or refugee camp.

I've been getting lots of leads from South American refugees asking if we work with the Catholic Charities Program and a few others.

I attribute this to a consistent flow of out of state buyers (we are a red state and are a haven for political refugees ;) and we always have low inventory.

A friend of ours is helping resettle his cousins who are Afghani refugees in the Akron area.

We also rented units in partnership with refugee resettlement programs to recent arrivals; those were a bit different because the rental agreements were in the name of the tenants, but backed up by the resettlement agency paying hefty security deposits.

In a way I could also relate, my parents came as refugees without a cent in their pockets.

It is ALSO coupled with immigrants coming over through refugee services as we are one of a select number of "cities" elected by the powers-to-be as such.   

These are under $700k.Sacramento: Bay Area refugees drove this market up.

My current side-side hustle, Global Artisans, employs local refugees to make bags out of recycled vinyl banners.The BP podcast has already been a trove of knowledge and motivation, but I'm glad to finally raise my hand in here and pay forward the advice and support the BP veterans so willingly give.