Agree, higher interest rates, weakening economy, affordability etc. are going to put a downward pressure on the the home prices.See how a mere mention of 'tapering' affected the markets couple of days back.

I seem to remember reading they may have passed some legislation to at least temporarily keep people from getting 1099s for income on foreclosures during this "crisis."

Then you can convert the pre-tax rollover IRA into your Roth IRA in that same year or a future year where you may temporarily have lower income.

My husband purchased a home in 2015, which we have temporarily moved to in order to fix it up and get it ready to rent.

Carrie-Your offer of only 5 year loan terms most likely has to do with one or a combination of these factors: 1) financial strength of tenant(s); 2) strength of location; 3) remaining lease term and any other  lease factors that may strengthen or weaken the lease.

Condo Joe has been on news tv saying he is seeing a weakening in the market in Austin.  

You can get a free copy from all three bureaus at annualcreditreport.org  If you have a security freeze on your credit report (now free to everyone), you'll want to lift it temporarily prior to having your lender run it.- income verification: Two most recent months of paystubs if you have W-2 employment or 2 years most recent tax records if you own your own business.

I would like to know more about the area as I am moving there temporarily in the summer.

Your best bet is to go to the Division of Real Estate's website and download the list of brokers (from the look up a license section under real estate), sort for inactive brokers, and start calling or sending them letters.If you're okay giving up (temporarily) on your dreams of having your own company, then call brokers/brokerages until you find one that will let you hang your license with their existing brokerage but do property management under them (they will charge some portion based on how much work they do versus you do). 

When the economy starts to contract investors will look at the rising cost of margin debt and the weakening economy and start to deleverage out of stocks, this will cause stocks to drop, resulting in more deleveraging.