This small decrease suggests there’s a bit more room for negotiation.Median Time to Contract: Homes are taking longer to sell, with a median of 27 days to contract compared to 19 days last year—a 42.1% increase.

This consistency shows a balanced market where buyers and sellers are finding common ground.Median Time to Contract: Homes are taking a bit longer to sell, with a median of 28 days to contract compared to 27 days last year—a small 3.7% increase.Median Time to Sales: The total median time to sales decreased by 2.8%, from 71 days to 69 days.

It's not like comparing apples to apples where you can view one 4 unit building against another unless you are building identically permitted buildings on parcels that share the same site conditions.

Home prices and insurance are very inexpensive compared to most areas. 

Everything could be managed remotely but you still need a person to inspect the property every month or more frequently during stabilization and less frequently afterwards.Being a small-sized but with well established and automized STRs gives a better service comparing to middle size where you are just another client.

Now, compared to San Francisco, it's incredibly easy;  but comparatively in North Alabama, it is not.  

You should look at it from business cycle and cap rate cycle , I could send you some charts when it ks more safer to invest at syndication….The risk when market at cap rate 4 compare to when market is at cap rate 6 is vastly different , you may want to wait until cap rates are stabilizing enough before investing so your risk / reward ratio is way higher.also you need dig deeper into supply/demand in the apt market as we are now on highest supply where there is strong pressure to rent growth.

My first rationale is the smaller homes will attract the type of tenet I’d prefer compared to the larger home I currently own which would be larger families.

Also know that commercial values are determined by the assets existing performance via their financial statements using the NOI and cap rates, which differs a good bit from how residential real estate is valued using comparable sales.

The midwest is a prime example of being overlooked but the pricing actually is pretty reasonable these days (at least compared to a couple of years ago).