Thirdly, you may be exacerbating that problem with the law if you take advantage of someone in foreclosure, promising to "help" them by relieving them of home-ownership and home equity, for your benefit.

Also typically the highest and best use of them is to be converted to condos, which further exacerbates our shortage of this asset class.

The initial government response to the crisis exacerbated the situation; protectionist policies like the Smoot-Hawley Tariff of 1930, rather than helping the economy, merely strangled global trade.

The market for short term rentals here is obviously pretty high and exacerbated by the squeeze in our longer term rental market.I'm looking to purchase property in either Waco or San Antonio and was interested if anyone had thoughts on areas that might be good for this or people to connect to in those areas, particularly in San Antonio. 

@Baris Berk Lots of people have hindsight bias exacerbated by a misunderstanding of the 2008 Financial Crisis that drive them to expect when RE prices get to high the bottom drops out everywhere. 2008 was a credit bubble that drove a Real Estate bubble.

This is just the sort of fire I was hoping to see my feet held to.Though we have sufficient W2 income to cover the negative cashflow I recognize your point about the opportunity cost of having these funds sunk into this.Also, the lack of ability to refinance (since it would return to or exacerbate a negative equity) is obvious but had not occurred to me.

Had the top engineer in the area out last year and he said that while the issue was fixable ("but will be expensive") - he felt that the current situation was exacerbated by leaks we had recently had repaired.

This is exacerbated when investors whittle them down to practically no profit, just because they can, knowing it is a bad economy.

Lack of confidence exacerbates price drops. 

Rising interest rates exacerbate the problem:Lawrence Yun, chief economist and senior vice president of research at the National Association of REALTORS®, suggested that rising interest rates are partly to blame for flat sales growth in the Austin area: "Higher interest rates have cut affordability and are holding back home sales.