You have to thank the housing crisis and deregulation that destabilized the housing market and jacked up rates. 

I would position it (diplomatically) that you work hard on your business to help improve the neighborhood and pay your share of municipal taxes, and you just want a reciprocation of that investment to repair the "city's property." 

We bought our home in 2010, right after the financial crisis.

However, in some Metro areas we have seen Foreclosures rising, but, the banks are NOT taking them back the same way they did during the last Financial Crisis. 

Im CA mortgage broker who stopped dealing with REO after crisis 2007 :) Now, here I am with question what your thoughts on cash flow properties throughout US. 

Yeah, I have a similar existential crisis every day.

Also interested in sober living homes as investments, as I care about the opioid crisis and would love to make an REinvestment that suppOrts recovery.

What are some best practices you have used for screening international tenant applicants and accommodating their unusual needs/circumstances (i.e. diplomatic clauses in their lease, not having US-based credit or cosigners). 

This happened to many investors during the housing crisis and it can easily happen again. 

He got prison AND had to payback 7 mil lol“The scheme involved kickbacks from condominium builders during the 2008 financial crisis, kickbacks that were hidden from lenders to convince them to fund loans in excess of actual purchase priceGroup members bought units for themselves and their relatives and on behalf of “straw buyers” with good credit scores who were recruited under the guise that the purchase was an investment opportunity that required no down payment and would generate rental income, prosecutors said.