The sponsors’ goals included “protecting naturally occurring affordable housing” from teardowns, decreasing “gentrification” and lowering property taxes for homeowners.

If the CO market is doing well for sure investors doing well too, if not, your equity may be decreasing as well. 

As a result, a mixture of high taxes and decreasing job prospects are making rental properties less profitable and more risky, never a great combination. 

In summary decreased services and decreased quality.BP and I do have a contact regarding the services, so will update here based on how that conversation goes.Funny thing, I don't have ANY e-mails or attempts to contact from BP about terminating the featured agent program.  

I think that if you play around with the right deals, you will find that return does increase if you lever up to 50%, but if the debt is negative leverage (interest rate higher than the cap rate, going to max LTV can actually decrease your returns due to this dynamic. 

One of the 800 economists who work there may have told them that since they decreased the M2 money supply by 4% over the last 2 years and currently now growing at only 1.26% not the pre-covid 6%, that they have stalled the plane, so forget the soft landing, get ready for some CHOP.

You have no guarantee that the company's value will increase or decrease but you have every reason to believe that over time it will do well.

So he pushed harder, put his shoulder into it, and he's a big guy, 6' and 240lbs of more muscle than flab, and he said he got further in that time, but he said that something pushed the door closed so hard that he fell back on the stairs, and all the lights went out for a few seconds, and he heard the door upstairs slam shut again.

On the bright side, a lower LTV will decrease the risk of the project for you so it's a good buffer to have on your first deal

The majority have had substantial recent price decreases, which seems concerning for long-term property value appreciation.