Generally speaking it takes about 8-12 years for an area that is reeling from economic struggles to recover, unless there is an influx of new businesses or a new industry coming to the area.

This was determined to be not sufficient to carry out the demands levied against the service so the USMC numbers have been growing over the past few years and thought it appears to change yearly, the actual authorized manning numbers are approved and projected forward several years so any short term war/crisis will have to be handled with current manning and reserves.

Take wholesaling for example...no one heard of it during it's most profitable years after the credit crisis. 

The net effect on pushing any values north or creating a future crisis of any sorts is likely nil IMO unless they change the down %.

Plenty of people are getting their hands on BRRR-type properties around Hilltop, so that may be a good ticket.Personally, I'm starting to look out of state where cashflows are much better; there are strong local economics; and dollars will buy more properties.

Many of the contractors in SoCal tend to do high end restoration and are not focused on more economical remodels.  

In the event of a cash crisis they may very well be coming to you with receipts in hand.The “hood” must be going upscale though, I don’t provide a/c units in my bucolic area.

It's icing on the cake, but what you really want to focus on are the economic and demographic trends of the markets and then the financial factors that make for a good cash flow market or whatever your particular goal is.

@Keith Patrick one other thing I can recommend is reaching out to syndicators on this site with offers to help them (make coldcalls to property owners, perhaps tour a property, or anything else they need help with...)I, too, am really interested in Multi-family investing/ syndication and I believe offering to help the investors who are doing what I would like to get good at is a great, economical way to get ahead.

I've found most of them don't align with the Grand Rapids Crazy low inventory real estate crisis.