@Meghan McCallum I have been attending two different REIAs but networking has always been a weakness of mine.

There is junk out there in weak suburban to rural areas with mom and pop tenants where you might get close all cash but long term a bad investment. 9 caps were 4 to 5 years ago for NNN.Now you could nationally get a high quality retail strip center for say 7.5 cap and with the proper debt structure with 30% down achieve close to the 10% cash on cash going in by leveraging.

That may sound like BS to many, but loading up the house with family and friends really DOES reveal any weakness in a fully guest occupied condition. 

;) Time is a friend to a wonderful property in a strong market, and the enemy of not so wonderful one in a weak market.

A Listing Agent, unless specifically authorized by the Seller, can never provide specifics of motivation, details of offers received, or other "inside" info that would show a weakness on the part of the Seller.

I've learned a lot about my strengths and weaknesses in these times.So, I can't offer a whole lot of advice because I'm where you are, but I'll offer this as a commiseration :)

That seems awful weak.

We own a single family townhouse in Manhattan UES and wanted to chime in on this.Over the past 10 years, cap rates have outpaced rents, so it doesn't really make sense that prices would keep going up, but on the other hand, Manhattan is much cheaper than Central London (as an aside, central London is a great buy for US investors even with the past few years of appreciation due to weak GBP.

What your strength and weaknesses, are you comfortable going out and speaking to distressed owners?

On the other hand, over 160 million Americans have chronic preexisting conditions that makes it more difficult for their immune systems to handle the disease like a young and healthy marine.