Everyone was jumping on the lending band wagon back in 2004-2006.Should there be any concern about the rate of lending skyrocketing again?

Joseph L. if you're planning on raising rent by 13% with next to no improvements, your 10% vacancy is about to skyrocket....And depending on your location, an increase by that amount may be prohibited.

@JonK We relocated to Orange County CA from an area that was highly dependent on the construction industry, and when the market crashed unemployment etc. skyrocketed to around 18%.

Sometimes rents decline, sometimes they skyrocket.

It may be a case of the blind leading the blind.That and we don't need Steve B's blood pressure sky rocketing, he has knowledge to disseminate!

Even if you live in a highly desireable area, prices can not continue to skyrocket for any significant period of time.

now that there are a sky rocketed rise in foreclosures do you think shortsales will still be profitable as they were a while back?

Once the Chi-coms and other foreign governments wake up and understand that their US Government IOUs are worthless and they REALLY start to buy stuff in the US, inflation is going to SKYROCKET.

If I had saved my money and paid off the one rental I'm now upside down in instead of borrowing to buy more (or even sold it when it skyrocketed to $500K (hope I'm not the only one that can say this :cry:), I'd have 100% income on the darn thing instead of minor negative cash flow.

My income sky rocketed after getting laid off!