I am constantly amazed at how many investors I talk to that are looking for "light to moderate rehabs" because they are "safer".

In addition, my partner and I both have good paying jobs ($91k and $73k) and live a fairly moderate lifestyle.

Appealing is a waste of time because, Facebook uses bots and has like 100 people moderating 20 million listings.

Thinking really far ahead here but it sure is fascinating.In the short term, buying for cash flow in areas with strong rental demand, low to moderate crime, and solid household incomes remains the way to invest successfully without retreating at a time like this.

The moderators may see this post as a 'sales activity' post, so disclosure is better than not.

Agree with above that it isn't ideal to feed a negatively-cash flowing property in hopes it will appreciate quickly but lowering cash flow expectations and buying at prices that provide some positive flow are the important things to focus on and where you will enjoy solid appreciation (like Metro Atlanta) but where you will be able to also likely increase cash flow both by refinancing when rates moderate and with lowering your LTV because of appreciation.

**** Moderator - Not soliciting.

.- The number of homes for sale remained roughly flat at its all-time record low, down 39% compared to last July and down even compared to June, which is abnormal.Demand – still softening, but moderating- Pending contracts are down only 3.2% from last July, the smallest decrease in this figure in quite some time.

Go buy where the houses are cheap, and rentals are moderate.

, or leverage moderately and go with a duplex?