The most important criteria is that pre-COVID rent growth exceeded the inflation rate.

MARKET UPDATE - DECEMBER 2022As volatile interest rates and inflation continues to affect housing affordability, buyers and sellers are becoming creative in their efforts to buy and sell real estate.

The tool is very simple to use and you should be able to do all the work in 20-30 mnts.I would be careful about adding in the cost of adding a second bathroom, it may not be typical for this market so if you over inflate your rehab costs you will lose credibility.  

This provides a concrete asset that can protect you from inflation (as property costs usually rise with it).

And then, more recently, how that dark shadow of inflation-doom had descended from Mordore, and the watchful "eye" had dropped a death-blow of rate increases, that this WAS it, the end, a collapse unlike any other, '08'-2.0 but on steroids, a certainty of impending "crash".........

Ultimately the sellers are going to find that with time on the market their home becomes less appealing and by starting out at an inflated cost they will be hurting their chances to be sold at a fair price in the end. 

Our strategy for the past few years have been to increase just enough to cover the inflation for that year.

The FL market is inflated right now, so I would recommend looking for a multi-family deal with a value add component to mitigate some of risk.

If you want to put your money in a savings account, there is no risk because you're completely guaranteed to lose to inflation every year.

Like the title says, don't get too excited about the October inflation data that was released late last week.