What I do not control is the natural level of rents in any given market at any given time. 

Also, what's the nature of your business? 

This influx of workers will naturally drive demand for housing, retail, and other services in the surrounding areas, especially in smaller towns and cities that haven't seen major growth in decades.

That takes a little time to develop those resources - but they naturally come with experience.

Just the nature of the business....

The nature of the relationship to me seemed exploitative and it bothered me a great deal. 

I might say that most of those are going to be residential in nature as well. 

I don't see how C4D leans either way, buyer or seller, it has no natural leaning. 

And very rarely does a market hold it's position measured over decades as there is a natural cycle of growth, maturity, decline, redevelopment, growth, maturity, decline, redev...... - OPPORTUNITY COST: The 1 constant in life is CHANGE.

The math is obvious but there's a natural tendency to go for properties you can obtain at a lower basis.