Bottom line real estate in the right atmosphere will do extremely well, why 11 rate hikes and eventually the fed will cut rates and big problem shortage on apartments in America millions units....FYI: leverage game 1 million in my opinion will double maybe triple 7-10 years due to supply demand maybe that's why Warren Buffett just bought home builders....right??

The next demographic cycle, in my humble opinion will actually cause more people to buy homes for privacy and cleanliness reasons (I know I am going out on a limb here saying that), but we also still have a shortage of apartments until 2030~ or so.

For the criteria you have mentioned, there is no shortage of inventory in the Pittsburgh area.

There’s still a housing shortage and the upside potential for appreciation is excellence!

Choose your poison I guess....It seems to me that one could take their Income Tax savings and use them to assist with the property shortages if/when they occur.

Millions upon millions of jobs lost "forever" ("exported" to the "third world"), more millions lost half or more of their retirement accounts, creditors slashed and burned consumer credit to the point where, by the banksters' own numbers, some 74% of Americans wound up with "bad" credit (it was only 47% before they did that), ...Now, add in the knee-jerk responses in the lending industry and you've got a situation where only the elite of formerly middle-class wage earners can even hope to qualify for new home loans.In fact, the given the current housing shortage (yet more fallout from the crash), it is ONLY the dearth of lending which is keeping home prices from launching into interstellar space by suppressing demand.

I don't think it's too unrealistic in the SD market to rent a room for around 1,000 dollars given the shortage of real estate and knowing as a service member myself that the military pays out 1,900 a month for housing allowance.

I cash flow about 250 a month because I'm balancing an escrow shortage.

The former because parties are a problem regardless of the length of stay and the latter I presume because short term renting simply moves jobs.And in any case, if we're into real estate for profit we like a bit of a housing shortage don't we? 

Is there some sort of Appraiser shortage in Portland, Molalla OR area.