If I was doing this in a rental, I would want the furnace disabled (if I paid for fuel), since the tenant could just decide to crank the furnace up.

They do have a short memory The fact that everyone is forgetting is not that you can buy a $700k  house on a teachers salary is that the house you bought was worth $50k more in a day a month or 2 months later people were not buying the homes to live in but is was a mad money grab The $102% deals where you walked away with cash, the homes that were flipped for $30k profits a week after closing  This was the gold rush of the 1890's fueled by the criminal acts of wall street .

Just like you read here, people were telling me that I'm stupid to buy there, that if I don't like crime, I should move, investors didn't want to touch the neighborhood with a 10' pole. 

They are consumers just like everyone else and some of that money MAY go back into the business or it may go to other areas such as savings, investing, or buying other things not related to business.The facts are that “the swamp” (as you refer to it) and the wealth of the wealthiest in the US has been fueled dramatically by the tax cuts of the first attempts at trickle down economics because those would be tax dollars were retained, not invested.

Aloha,Your electricity comes into your home either from a pole along the street, or buried underground.

I wanted to get a Prius as they're very reliable and get great mileage, but the cleaner ones with low miles tend to be around $10k which pretty much negates any fuel savings.

Especially when you consider the recent surge in new real estate licenses as new agents look to make a fortune in the booming economy:https://www.azcentral.com/story/money/real-estate/catherine-reagor/2018/06/05/number-metro-phoenix-arizona-real-estate-agents-grows-housing-market-booms/674280002/Bad Real Estate Deja-VuWe all remember just a short decade ago how the market came all crashing down on our heads and totally leveled the economy.Phoenix’s housing boom was fueled by subprime mortgage and real estate speculators looking to make a quick buck.

Fuel?

The losers in this are on the poles. 

If bought SFR, then gain additional $39k or 12.3%In hindsight, not sure if anyone could have predicted a pandemic that resulted in low inventory and low interest rates that fueled the real estate market to new highs.