This is the same process a national retail store chains use to determine store locations and what to stock.

Where these numbers are found, there is a very high rate of rent actually being paid.We have over a dozen Fortune 500 companies just in Metro Detroit with huge Healthcare, Auto, and mortgage industry National footprints.

National occupancy rates are 50-55%.

**NAHB Contracts**: The National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) offers a variety of detailed and standardized legal templates specifically designed for the residential construction industry2.

City National Bank is offering up to a $50,000 grant to buy properties in certain neighborhoods. 

Cleveland currently has one of the lowest price/rent ratios in the Nation, with the average home price being $107k and the average rent being $1,416/Mo.

It is a national disgrace that nothing has been done on behalf of the victims.Clinton, and the institutions involved, should have been co-defendants in a criminal case in Federal Court. 

Given that affordable housing is a national issue it seems that the more pathways to home ownership is a good thing.

Nationally, the levels of pre-existing home sales are back at 1995 levels mostly because of the interest rate conundrum, so I'm interested to know what's happening in your area that high rates are causing more people to sell?

I grew up in the Kisatchie national forest in Louisiana.