Take a house that sold at a low price twice in the past.  

This gives a better snapshot of market trends than averages, which can be skewed by high or low sales.November: $484,995December: $484,500January: $491,995 How long would it take for my home to sell?

It’s a lower risk strategy since you’ll be living in one of the units, and you’ll qualify for low down payment loans.

Is interest so low that you can't justify having them more often?

City proper has been on 5 year bear market completely unrelated to anything political, the suburbs have been adding inventory since the summer but are still very low but any measure and have actually gotten tighter the last few month, while I am open to the idea these cuts could eventually have some effect on the market, about 20% of the dc area is federal employees, let’s say the federal government cut the work force 25% which would be huge, that’s 5% of the population, but a good number of those people are either two income households where one person works in the private and/or the person being laid can go get a similar job in the provide sector l, the percentage of households who would be forced to sell thier house over this is likely in very low single digits.

The issue is our land value is high, so the structure value is low compared to the overall property cost. 

1) I think it’s “funny” that not one news article I ever read for the last 5 years had headlines like “Housing at historical record lows!

Since you're new, start by narrowing down a strategy—house hacking is a great way to get started with low upfront costs.

It's low class but some managers I know make s killing.houses are in poor condition since they were built quickly in 1946 to house the returning soldiers from the war👍 

The chances that you currently live in a city meeting all these criteria are low.