So I have a good paying job right now in auto sales for Honda but I’ve always wanted to try real estate and my current workplace is going through management Changes which will result in some people getting moved around to other dealerships so I am strongly considering making my transition into Real estate if I have to learn new material for a different Auto Make anyway.

The Big Three were able to put nearly every smaller competitor auto-maker out of business.

Segmenting your market just as the automakers do and making sure that your product hits your key demographic audience and isn't trying to be everything to everybody is vital.

Something in DC or major government employer would be more recession tolerant than a MFR next to an automaker plant after a round of layoffs.

Rewey  were my dad and I came up with the Zero interest was in the era of 15 to 20% interest rates.. and you had I believe it was Datsun  ( Nissan to those who are too young to know what a Datsun is ) was the first auto maker to come out with 1.9% or 0% financing on their car's.Also at the same time I had a group of Saudi buyers ( circa early 80s) who could not pay interest for religious reasons.So just cranked up the HP and and started to get very familiar with PV's and all different calcs.. in those days we sold our owner financed land at 15% interest 7 years..

The article points out the sharp rise in delinquency for auto loans made to subprime borrowers by auto-finance companies, usually through auto makers or dealers.

Some of the hottest investor markets are the cities in the suburbs of Metro Detroit located near a hospital or auto maker, or BOTH if you’ve really found a good one.

Detroit destroyed itself when they didn't innovate past the big three auto makers. 

-Property values might decline and drag rents down too-(but Haslett is supported by retirees as well as its best-in-state schools)-The entire state economy might convulse as it did during the automaker exit and Great Recession-(but Michigan is still in early recovery from its major declines so it has very little space to fall further and Haslett weathered that storm quite well - using Zillow Home Price as a measure)Returning to your original two sources, the housing stock in Haslett is growing very, very slowly due to smart but strict regulation while the demand for housing is continuing to grow faster.So, all things point to growth in this tiny REI area which is best known perhaps for the Lake Lansing coastline of which supports houses ranging from 250K to 1.5M (and were these lake houses built almost anywhere in Los Angeles they would fetch prices 5 to 10 times as high - they are that great).Good luck and thanks for sharing on BP!

The company hopes to diversify its clientele by selling the other two-thirds of its production to U.S. electric vehicle auto makers, such as Ford Motor Co. and General Motors, according to Austin Devaney, the company’s vice president of sales and marketing.SC6 from Piedmont Lithium will be used to power at least 350,000 Tesla cars each year, Devaney said.To put that in perspective, Tesla delivered 367,500 cars – the majority of them manufactured at Tesla’s factory in Fremont, Calif. -- in 2019 globally.Tesla’s Model 3 sedan alone accounted for nearly half of the total electric vehicles sold in the U.S. during 2019 at 154,840, according to the U.S.