Getting into wholesaling now will be difficult enough already, but you're decreasing your chances by focusing on those areas.

_________________________________________________________________________________________________With Real Estate syndication you can do things like raise rents, decrease expenses, renovate the building, add amenities such as a swimming pool, spa, or gym, hire new property management, add units, add services such as laundry, valet parking, or online rent payments, and much more.

Typically, rental rates don't turn around/decrease unless the city because a bankrupt-like city.

As the Federal government became involved to "help" stimulate the economy by guaranteeing bank loans, via SBA or VA or FHA (Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae), more laws were implemented to help decrease loan risk, increase asset value and life expectancy. 

The entire town burned down, pretty much decreasing the population by 90%.

These basic formulas do make sense:NOI / Cap Rate = Property ValueProperty Value x Cap Rate = NOINOI / Property Value = Cap RateHowever, an example is given where the NOI is increased by either raising rents or decreasing expenses, and then this comment is made:"In the above examples, you can really start to see the power of using the cap rate in the analyses.

On the flip side, you may see a decrease in vacancies as people are forced to rent out or sell their own homes.

Don't forget about being able to accept the Gov't travel card and that the logding portion of the per diem decreases after 30 days of tdy (and again at 90 and 180???).

Don't make a permanent decision based on (what could be) a temporary problem. 

We just enjoy giving soldiers a good temporary place to live that is off base :) We have had some potential homes in Ft.Hood (Killeen and Copperas cove area) but the property taxes in Texas are just killer.