If you’re familiar with SF apts it’s a prime example of what happens when you get rent control - crappy buildings/obsolete units and insane market rents that are artificially inflated by rent control.The thing to watch out for if you own commercial deals (5+ unit apts too), is on the 2020 ballot they’re going to have a vote to separate prop 13 so commercial deals are no longer protected.

Always fascinating what happens when you artificially control supply and demand, it leaks out somewhere because people will always find a way to optimize their situation, whether the landlord or the tenant, as you point out.

Anyone else who ask you pre-pay is likely fooling you.Another advice is never hurry into any deal due to some artificial deadline - such as lease is up. 

The legal costs of starting information services aren't trivial, and being an advisor is far thornier, and may even require licensing.As for machine learning, artificial intelligence and APIs, note that they do not fix GIGO (garbage in, garbage out).

I get it that it sucks from a tenant's point of view when a disaster or other issue inflates the market price - but unless you're going to have artificial price floors, you cannot have artificial price ceilings.

Thus, I think you may have seen artificial demand in 2018, where people who otherwise would have waited until 2019 or 2020 to buy may have forced themselves to buy in 2018 (even borrowing the down-payment from their parents) before rates went any higher.

It currently has a artificial turf that faded and torn in places.Many thanks,-Eric

Rates have been artificially low for a long time and should keep going up.

I also chose to install artificial turf as opposed to grass that's only green it the winter. 

Seems like an artificial way to make a market and create money.