Curious to hear what folks think this will do to mortgage rates, especially since it's arriving on the heels of a booming jobs report.

So if you look at the map and use the umbrella zoning color codes to know at a glance if something is residential, commercial, etc and then begin to zoom in, then you'll eventually be able to view specifics like R-1, R-2, CEIR, etc. 

Like @Jamie Rose said, contractors are more readily available in Anchorage and Wasilla where most of the population is. 

According to Realtor.com’s residential listing database, active inventory in March 2024 rose 4.5% MoM to 695,000 units (that’s up 23.5% YoY!)

I think it can work out best if you get your horror stories over early; some people get roses and rainbows with their first tenant, think "this is easy street", pick up a couple more properties, then get a bad run or two and lose everything.

@Rose Aspinall it works when you are buying homes under the brrrr, use PayPal to take the money off the card, and then refinance it. 

The first 6 months it rose to value above 160K and kept rising.

I make curtains a tenant responsibility so there's no cleaning/cost involved and the Tenant can choose their own colors and decorate the bathroom a little.

Others have told me for example stick to all white and gray while others have said to go crazy with colors and make it UNIQUE…  thoughts on modern vs chic? 

After George Air Force base closed, so did a lot of Businesses, Growth in the area stopped almost overnight. finally started to pick up again in about 2004 then all of the sudden home prices in the area rose 300-400% between 04 and 08...