I had an employees logged in to our account same time as me and we had different stats. 

LA in 2024 had a minimum wage of $19.33 an hour. 52 weeks at 40 hours a week grosses you $3,350 a month.

This is becoming more true for government employees clearly given the recent "Use It" act which will require 400,000 government employees to go from a remote to a hybrid role which started in January of 2024 and will continue to ramp up as time goes on (Source 1, Source 2)This trend will continue as companies realize more increasingly they need to be at least hybrid to be competitive.

Typically lenders can lend up to 50% of what your gross income is.

Not enough people to generate the demand to sell enough houses for that size property and not enough people for a factory or something to come to because they wouldn't be able to get enough employees from the surrounding areas.Is that a good hunting area?

As bit by bit more and more comes out in media of the myriad of gross mismanagement actions done via, your buddies Comrade John, Big Government. 

Part of the deal, just annoying when payments don’t go through when they should and these companies are difficult to deal with (as nice as their Filipino call center employees are, I’m spending too much time on the phone with them).   

@Aaron Raffaelli we call all the cities that touch Detroit, the Ring Cities - except the Grosse Pts.These cities are mostly Class B and are solid rentals.Detroit overall has gentrified to Class C, but at least a third of the city is Class D still.Check out the interactive map on our website and watch for whats coming...

But what I would point out to you is that the typical fee for property management is 8-10% of GROSS rent.

This is easy to explain and I think it would be helpful for the public to understand that agents are typically independent contractors and not employees, and that their brokerage actually receives the commission, not the agent.