This all results in this major sector of the work-force and home-buyers to tighten up their purses if they haven't already bunkered down in the new house they just bought. 

I know buying STR is extremely risky as it's a market for the hospitality/hotel sector, not regular long-term housing.

STRs are a very fast growing sector (anticipated to be 20% growth in 2023) and the IRS has not caught up all their information.

Are you talking about an extra $20 or is their rent $200 below what you could get from the private sector? 

I deal in a very fragmented (maybe the most fragmented) sector of real estate and this has been my overall experience.We can agree to disagree that CAP rate has no place in underwriting an acquisition.  

As HML goes we are a small shop that carved a niche in a very particular sector of the market that I identified as under served so we stepped right in.for many investors though a nice 9% note for say 5 years that has 60 on time payments .. those will out perform the 12% short term because of the lack of drag.. we do a million a month of that paper.

The effectiveness of using rent varies tremendously by the sector of the market your rental is positioned in.

If you wanted a Google Adwords campaign to run world wide, those keywords will cost you a fortune everytime someone clicks on your link if you want to be at the best position of that keyword search.

Kochi is now one of the fastest developing metros in South India, and is home for more than a dozen of attractive and profitable real estate projects, each worth many crores of rupees.There are many reasons behind Kochi’s meteoric rise in to the vanguard of real estate sector in the state.

Too many industries/job sectors to analyze without a lot of work.