Cap rates are depressing due to the heavy influx of foreign money(their cap rates are even lower), but we believe that there is still opportunity in the right markets.

Decreasing crime indexEssentially, it does not really matter what your strategy is if the market is depressed or in a down cycle.

I think I can scale faster in the depressed areas without losing my shirt and gaining a windfall in cashflow.

I have been waiting and getting my credit score and everything last year in order to get a Duplex to house hack in the Lake county IL area. There was an opportunity to get a turnkey property and the numbers would of w...

Every two years the government comes up with some new disease to give the people a reason to stop thinking about real life and the fact that February is depressing.

We picked properties in a market that was really depressed and didn't have potential for recovery.  8 years ago we were lured to an area by a "friend" and were wowed by the low home prices. 

That would be akin to selling your stocks in 2012 after losing your butt for 5 years; which was 5 years shy of the FULL rebound of the stock market to a point about 2x the 2007 highs.Investing in the stock market is not wisely used a short-term investment vehicle and I believe you would be doing yourself a disservice to look up and see the sky falling (due to a very clear cause -- a virus) and dump your depressed stocks so that you could put that money into a (potentially) inflated commodity like investment real estate.   

I wouldn't be surprised to see bad debt double to triple over the next three months.A follow on effect could then be depressed rent growth over the next year or two as the workforce population regains its footing and finds new employment (as the demand builds back to normal which won't happen as quickly as the demand was cut).There's so much variance depending on metro, asset-class, and business model, but you have to expect some impact to MFH assets.

Prices seem depressed compared to Maine.

. ($15 to $20k in many places)So if you get some good education and it doesn't cost you a lot, it's still a win.The BRRRR method worked a lot better 5 years ago when prices were still depressed and rising.