Those pensions are being left holding the bag as bonds are bid up and yields drop.

I agree it's a mixed bag on pricing and of course varies from yard to yard, store to store, item to item.

Before I got rid of all my multi family, and dirt bag homes and got decent tenants, I've never been sued or had to sue.

Evicting someone that old so your daughter can live rent free is a sh$t bag move, and a decision based on the wrong emotion. 

Apparently, to get started you’ll need lots of paper bags.

Even if the borrower pays off the loan after a few years (refi or sells) then you have a good chance of needing to come up with cash to be able to pay off the underlying loan.I see this strategy as a huge opportunity for scammers to leave their buyer's holding the bag on a property they think they now own but that's in fact still mortgaged.

From the investors I've met in town, it's a fairly mixed bag.

If I am jjust holding my bag and waiting for the market to change… thats not preparation.

brown bag PB&J. 

I initially provided all paper products, spices, soaps to refill the soap dispensers, plastic storage and garbag bags, etc. .