We're both in the New York City area and I think we both have seen the rental market absolutely explode here.

Our market in Tampa is exploding here.

Bought a house in Brantford before the market exploded and want to BRRRR a property, but it seems extremely difficult to do given the cost of houses here.

Might I recommend a very VERY over looked area poised to explode in value and produce a better cap rate in the meanwhile.. 

The difference is though...everyone needs shelter, the population is exploding and they aren't making anymore land.

First, explode all school districting and end public school monopolies.

Obviously both these scenarios present two totally different outcomes so I'm just trying to officially figure out what it is so my brain doesn't explode.

We have so many options and my head wants to explode. :)  We can pay the 25% down payment with stock investment money and get a traditional mortgage on it, but this seems the least attractive because I'd prefer the stocks to stay put. 

Thankfully we had a contractor that friends of ours had used to do similar work, so we were incredibly lucky for that, meaning there was some trust in the contractor from the get-go, translating to less stress.The housing market explode over the course of the rehab, which drove home prices up higher than we expected.

The guy downstairs was gone for a month, and over that month - sewage had exploded out of the toilet and was everywhere!