Some 7.5 million households will have lost their homes and nearly all of them have since become renters – many of single-family homes similar to the ones they owned previously: http://www.housingwire.com/articles/34369-moodys-analytics-single-family-rental-growth-will-accelerateApartment Market Strength Continues in Second Quarter With 5% Annual Effective Rent Growth and 95.2% OccupancyAnnual effective rent growth for United States apartments reached 5.0% for the first time in four years, according to early second quarter 2015 numbers from Axiometrics, the leader in apartment market and student housing research and analysis: http://www.digitaljournal.com/pr/2600931The 20 Hottest U.S.

I don’t have a huge family but it would be nice to know I could set aside a trust for each of them that grew and they would receive a certain amount monthly, quarterly, or annually and that I could make charitable contributions as well.

Here are my expense numbers with various purchase prices:Expenses: (Mortgage numbers assume 20% down)700k Purchase: $2609.36 (30yr 3.8%) 650k Purchase: $2422.00 (30yr 3.8%) 600k Purchase: $2236.60 (30yr 3.8%)500k Purchase: $1863.83 (30yr 3.8%) Vacancy: (12%) $628.20Property management: (12%) $628.20 /monthTax: $584 /monthCap Ex: (10%): $523.50Water: $800 quarterly $267 /monthMaintenance: (5%): $261.75 /monthLawn Care/Snow removal: $200 /monthHome Insurance: $125 /month*Electricity and Gas are paid for by tenants with separate meters.

Most of the local investor meetups are back to being in person but I believe @Jonna Weber has a quarterly meetup that is still on zoom. 

It's worth noting that the market recovered in 8 quarters during the last recession, and good syndicators will be agile enough to deploy a strategy to ride these troughs out - have a look at this-U.S.

@Seth Wooten as a real estate agent there is probably four things you can do:1.

I currently use DIscover which has 1% cash back on all purchases and 5% cash back quarterly promotions.

And I would sit there and think- man, I get 9 checks on the 1st and all I had to do was empty the quarters in the laundry this month!

• The San Diego apartment market is amid a stretch of the strongest demand in at least 20 years.• Overall vacancy rate of 2.4% compares to the stabilized rate of less than 2%.• With recent demand, asking market rent...

Sometimes its better to breakdown your 5-10yr goal into smaller quarterly goals to better reach them.