If I had to guess she has over leveraged herself and is using other people's money to try to combat the problem.

When you put it that way they are usually less combative. 

There was no chance that the Feds around the world wouldn't raise their fund rate to combat run-away inflation.Contrary to popular opinion, building and managing properties isn't easy.

I'm the youngest in the group (by 20+ years) and my inexperience in real estate transactions is combated by my ambition and ability to work with numbers (this is where my job as a credit analyst comes into play).

The only way to combat this is to play their stupid game an fight your property taxes every year. 

Has anybody found an effective way to combat this?

Gender bigotry is a real issue, and can really only be combatted  one individual at a time.

I do not want to go into another vacation market but rather a metro area with a more diversified economy again just to get into a different type of asset.That being said I do want to continue to short term rent the next few properties we get at least in the first few years of ownership in order to increase cash flow to combat these higher prices and carrying costs before potentially converting to more passive long terms down the line.Therefore I am looking for markets that 1) have a decent draw of visitors year round 2) have regulations that allow strs in some parts of the city 3) Are in growing cities in the west or south.Below is a list of markets I have identified as potential places to look and I was hoping to get some insight from either other investors doing the same thing or agents/investors in any of these markets on whether this is potentially a good market to explore or not.1) Salt Lake City (this is right at the top of my list due to its proximity to ski resorts, expanding of the airport and long term strategic business planning of the area but I have very little knowledge of this market)2) Denver 3) Phoenix (used to live in AZ and like the fact that the state of AZ seems to look favorable on strs)4) Tucson (see above but lower home prices/potentially less appreciation)5) San Diego/LA (these are attractive because of their proximity to my home in Irvine)6) San Antonio (love that it is very close to the booming Austin and feel that this is a market that could see some real growth in the future)7) Tampa/St Pete (I have always been very interested in this market for both short term and long term rentals)8) Raleigh (have invested in Charlotte and love NC but again very little knowledge on this area)Any insights or advice on any of this would be greatly appreciated.

Her father flew combat missions over Germany in WW2, and was very conservative in everything he did for his family.There are quite a few threads on similar topics here.  

I'm not sure the stock market wholly representative of the greater economy.John; I'm not being combative just contributing to the discussion.Arent layoffs and reducing the velocity/quantity of money in circulation a component of reducing inflation?