MikeOH,Dollar rebounds against Yen, Euro and Pound Sterling (from a 26 year funk) today...http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?

Especially if I'm right in assuming that would help stimulate the market's rebound... return confidence to those who can buy but aren't for fear we aren't at the bottom, that they couldn't resell if they had to in 3 or 5 years... allow those who want to move but can't to be able to, to go where jobs are, to go from "under employed" to fully employed... to convince investors who still aren't sure about real estate to chase the market and poor more money into it...

To further the 'lift and shift' discussion, WSJ had an interesting article on the young driving an urban rebound.Link: http://www.wsj.com/articles/young-drive-an-urban-rebound-1420250736This is still relevant to @David Krulac original stats on the moves as there may be a relationship to those states seeing an influx with cities there. 

Home Prices Projected to Begin Rebound in 2011

If the retail market rebounds these properties should increase substantially.

Like I said I get this thought process when you own a home in Kokomo or Muncie or some little town in rural Illinois or Rochester buffalo etc.. were values peaked 20 to 30 years ago and have eroded and the only reason they have rebounded a little is this craze to own these as rentals.. 

One is where the economy will rebound in the near future and things will return to some form of a new normal where in general tenants have jobs, there are enough of them and can support paying rent consistently.

STR's are on the rebound now in many areas.

He said once you have a job that will last and the interest rates low, take advantage of the fact that lower interest rates will reduce your overall buy and will gradually increase your real estate value as the economy slowly rebounds.

It doesn't make sense to hold equity because interest rates rise.I like apartment buildings because unlike houses the value is tied into the income approach versus the comparable sales approach.When the markets rebound and rents rise the value of the apartment increases and also we will see cap rate compression when the market gets hotter.So you can grow equity at a faster rate.One of the down sides to commercial investing is short term finance loans versus residential which has longer term loans.