That's where the 1031 can help you without out a lot of artificial entity manipulation.  

I have a career in medicine as a physician assistant and own 1 rental property (single family home) my wife and I have owned for about 6 years.

The Fed kept buying MBS for way, way too long and in turn created more artificial demand.

We got a good deal and the rents have been kept artificially low which allows plenty room for more cash flow.

However, I do know that keeping rents artificially low is always a lose/lose proposition.

The higher bids take me into negative cash flow scenarios :/ Then taget cheaper properties and put a larger down payment.The fact is everyone always views some constraint that theyve artificially put in front of them.

I heard at a ULI event that CO has an artificially inflated SFR market due to a lack of supply in the first time buyer ($200K-$300K ) space, additional supply would typically be achieved through condo development.

The area seems to be artificially inflated right now, and the home prices vs. rental income just do not seem to work. 

Retirement is for people that hate their jobs and have this artificial date 30 years from now that they can leave the job they hate. 

@Eli Sunderland,Here's what you need to remember about the crash and the housing market before and after it ...Leading up to the crash, virtually unlimited access to lending created an artificially high demand which drove prices skyward, even in the face of the highly speculative development and home building.In the crash, some 80% of home builders went under.