And just because the stock market is hitting a correction does not mean we are about to fall off the cliff of depression/recession again.

Will continue to purchase if things go wellK falls is and has been pretty depressed area  .. 

Prices will likely be depressed for 2-3 years, but will come back as people's earnings and savings recover. 

There are multiple factors that all play a role and there will never be a quick and easy solution.....Rising cost of housing and overall cost of livingStagnant wages...... lag FAR behind increase in cost of livingPoor education systemPoor family system..... if you get raised by a deadbeat loser, you will probably be one too...Poor healthcare system...... cost and availability of careMental illnessDrug and alcohol addictionLoss of lower level blue collar jobs..... those jobs are disappearingGeneral loss of a hard work ethic in our societyALL of these play a role....Attributing it to just being" lazy" is absurd....... just like when morons tell people with clinical depression to just "shake it off and put on a smile"...... might as well tell the guy with cancer to "rub some dirt on it" and get back out there.So personal citizens and LL should be held responsible to fix it....... and the government should fix it..... but we don't want big government....we don't want higher taxes.....we don't want the government telling us what to do.....we want our freedom....... so make up your mind

I have good reserves, so I should be able to make it to the other side of this pandemic/recession/depression.  

@Andrew Perkins I have an illness that lends itself to lead me toward depression.

When they turned 18 all of them were diagnosed with misc mental disorders and not one had ever worked.

I found a small, fully remodeled duplex for $35k in a depressed area of South Carolina with good renters in place bringing in $900/mo in rent, but it had to be a cash deal because it was slightly over appraised price and I also could not find any lender willing to lend that small amount.

At the moment all the liquidity pumped into the economy, $3Trillion or so pumped by the fed alone, is helping elevate asset prices and stave off a recession/depression.    

I have never heard of any rental property sitting vacant for months, unless the property is uninhabitable, isn't being marketed or is in a depressed location.