Now is one of the best times to get into the market, once the Fed starts lowering rates that's going to bring more demand into the marketplace causing prices to increase at a faster pace again so if you get in now you capture that growth and get the opportunity to refi when rates are more favorable in a year or two.

Just want to add that the Fed is planning to cut rates later in 2024, which should lower mortgage rates, so you might want to wait until fall for refi or HELOC.  

It also seems to imply that illegal units will get amnesty (note an ADU law providing fed a 5 year amnesty on unpermitted units, but this seems to be a perpetual amnesty).Thoughts?

Finally, I fed up and went on their live meeting and start to complaint. 

We also are seeing dovish FED meetings where we are being told that rates are going to drop by the end of the year.

How do other members in the community get around you when they are walking on the sidewalk (perhaps in pairs or parents with strollers) especially when there is concomitant traffic and you are not stepping back onto the property / grass / lawn to get out of their way.4.

“She said she got fed up and went to her family’s home on 160th Street—with the local TV outlet in tow—on Feb. 29 and called a locksmith to change the locks for her.”Understandable, but not a wise course of action.

Now, the FED is definitely determined to slow us down.

I would encourage you to look at the dollars per square foot, that the other property sold for and compare it to your property’s dollars per square foot cost.Otherwise, my general feedback is two-fold… the signals we are getting from the Fed are that they are likely pausing rate hikes.  

Oregon is getting 8.5 Bil from the feds and another 50 bil from other sources .