There has been downwards pressure on rates this year due to the economy. 

You’re definitely not alone in feeling this way—success and the pressure to achieve it can bring a lot of anxiety, especially when you’re just starting out.

It also reduces the likelihood of price fluctuations based solely on seasonal trends, allowing for more predictable cash flow and quicker returns.Markets with minimal seasonality also provide greater flexibility for investors, who aren’t pressured to time transactions based on seasonal cycles.

It feels like a desperate attempt to pressure someone into paying, but I've been surprised before. 

If you want something more affordable but still solid areas I would consider - Upper NE Philly, Roxborough/manayunk, and West and part of East mount airy. 

My impression of these DST's are as follows:  They are the easy way out of making a 1031 exchange with out the pressure of a replacement property in 45 days.They provide steady returns with no hassles, but generally low like 5-6 percentThey offer diversification of asset types.The cons are the fees to get into them and they are syndications that you don't have control over.

However, the Most alarming thing is they have allowed the water bill (they pay for all utilities, but the city bills the water to me) to mount over $2k over the last several months.

If you check under your trim you'll prob find places where the flooring is not touching the wall this will cause the floor to shift in those spots add some type of filler to put pressure against the wall and floor to avoid the seams having room to shift.

Perhaps not a trend to consider across the city but any neighborhood that would attract college educated young professional families seems to be a good bet if you wanted to focus on this asset type.I plan to build 12 townhomes as a second phase of a condo/townhome project in a good area of Mount Airy near the Chestnut Hill boarder and even though I’m likely to years away from being ready to begin phase 2, my current plans are to keep the 12 homes as rentals for the precise reasons I outlined above.  

Closing attorney INSTEAD intentionally, possibly by pressure from the lender and fraud (TBD) to illegally use my money to pay off this other lender (WITHOUT ME KNOWING OF THE LENDER or LIEN even existed) who then refused to wire the money back to the closing attorney KNOWING that they increased the payoff and if they sent the money back to the attorney, they wouldn't have recouped the EXTRA money they gave to the borrower under the table, hints why they didn't send the money back.Yes, I know what they all did was fraud and i'm in litigation etc, but my question still stands.