This put downward pressure on market prices and cause neighborhoods to decline.a rapid population increase will cause a shortage of housing, and this will tend to increase rents and prices.We are not talking about identifying specific up and coming neighborhoods on their way to gentrification, this is very hard to do without being very familiar with a given neighborhood, but about painting the states with a very wide brush and see what cities are going to grow at a macro level.The list below has links to the wikipedia demographics section.The 1 minute tour of relevant US citiesCities with secular demographic downtrend: Detroit MICleveland OHBirmingham ALCities with stable long term demographics: Kansas City MOIndianapolis INMemphis TNCities with secular demographic uptrend: Tampa FLAtlanta GADallas Fort Worth TXCharlotte NCCities that became too expensive for turnkey: Las Vegas NVOrlando FLPhoenix AZ

I've been brushing up on Fair Housing and I'm not sure about this distinction.

It's a great time to buy because of the oil downturn making it a soft market!  

They're the only application we are considering so far and the rental market this year appear to be soft:(

Although housing is high, but you can buy home here, except you have to be smart to purchase home at the soft market... and not fighting with RE speculators during seller market.

If the numbers are projected (pro-forma) then you’ll want to reference then again other sources, for example property managers and online rent rate tools for market rents.Another thing you must do is make sure the numbers you’re being given include “soft” expenses such as vacancy allowance and maintenance & repairs.

With Chase you need to bear in mind their 5/24 ruleThe only business cards that report to personal are Capital One and DiscoverHome Depot and Lowes Commercial accounts i got after a year or so of net 30 payments with the well known suppliersIf you have a personal Amex account , business cards are usually a soft pullStagger the applications paying attention to which bank pulls which bureau in your state

Emerging economies increasing their standard of living will drive demand for commodities through the roof (both hard and soft).

I never use a state issue contract, they are too soft.

The other cheap update you could do is to but in some brushed nickel or oil rubbed bronze towel holders, toilet paper holders, etc (whichever matches the faucets).