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. 

It is introducing cheap money into the market that will artificially drive up housing costs.  

The life estate could also be seen as an artificial limitation to your investment activity. 

@Thomas D. if I understand correctly, you and your uncle are going to form a conspiracy to falsely inflate the value of your properties for the purpose of taking loans from a bank in amounts larger that would be allowed if not for the artificial inflation.  

You and I are on the same page about the effects of increasing rates (they couldn’t stay so artificially low for so long without consequnces) and the benefits of the tax billI asked you if you had any data or could at least point to any tangible signs of the Bay Area market taking a “hard hit” (your words) any time soon.