But there rents and home values didn't skyrocket leading up to 2006 in the same way as California.

I just don't see a 10%+ reduction in overall prices in Nashville in the near future, short of skyrocketing interest rates or the complete nationalization of health care. 

What is the future of shipping if there is a wide expanse, U.S.P.S still able to ship anywhere without prices skyrocketing?

Just seems like within the past few months many have skyrocketed.

I think that a year or two ago that might have been an accurate estimate but building costs have skyrocketed in what feels like no time. 

I imagine if using the boot idea, most late-paying tenants will laugh it off in the beginning, and then when they wake up and see 5 boots out on the lot, the next month the on-time rate will skyrocket.

But prices have sky-rocketed in the last few years so it has become very difficult to find deals that make sense.Once i finish the 2 apartments I recently purchased and rent it out i will probably start looking at different more affordable areas, but probably around greater Lisbon.I think investing in university towns is a great strategy, around hospitals and stations are other good areas to focus on. 

Renters are being squeezed as investors swallow up property.. and home owners raise rents in relation to their skyrocketing property values.  2004 also had an overbuild of condos, mostly funded by investors instead of future homeowners...and many of those condos stayed vacant for years..

Because of skyrocketing costs and a shortage of qualified contractors here, there are unfortunately many who essentially can *never* go home again as their insurance coverage is not sufficient to pay the bill.

@Albert Jones Indy is a very diverse city in terms of real estate, you have areas that have skyrocketed in the last few years and areas that have only been dragged up a few % because the city as a whole is coming up and investors are buying based on spread sheet numbers not actual facts.