Google "Latin American Debt Crisis" some time. 

Even of those making more than $60,000 a year, it was 8.8 percent.Eviction rates were higher in metropolitan areas hit hard by the U.S. foreclosure crisis, Salviati said.

They're a crafty bunch.First they entice SFH bidding wars with easy credit that they can create out of thin air.Then they blow up the economy with a financial crisis causing people to lose their SFH.Then they borrow money from the Fed at 0% and buy up all the cheap SFH.Now they rent them back out to the people they swindled in the first place.

At 22, there's no need to rush (unless you have some dire crisis at hand).

So life has been good since the mortgage crisis doldrums.  

Since 2009 some condos have appreciated spectacularly well  as they were "oversold" in the financial crisis.* Condo operational costs could well be less due to less land, exterior area per entity.

And what a great opportunity this disaster of a financial crisis we've seen has provided to some of us.

Is it possible that the same lot in Palo Alto could fall from $1.5mm to $1.0mm because of an unexpected demographic shift, tax increases, a water crisis, or a change in zoning code?

Hi friends, I am a student researching the after effects of foreclosures on people and families in the current financial crisis.

Unfortunately, that was the pre-financial crisis standard.If you haven't done this before/ don't have an immaculate credit score, the required DSCR is going to be like 1.5