Stokes Jr:@Joe Villeneuve you lost me If the house gets the symptoms (fever, coughing, trouble breathing), don't buy the house. 

Have night terrors, etc.My own dog is a service animal for my Type I Diabetes. 

Look at us, we have a population that is in poor health with every 2nd person presently or soon diabetic, wide spread poverty, a level of crime and gun violence like no other country on earth, we managed to make education FOR-profit leading to massive student debt and universities being richer than small countries, if you travel a bit you can see that our infrastructure is worse than some of the ******** countries we look down on, our health care system is F'd up beyond believe, our food is one of the unhealthiest in the world, we are consuming ressources at a level that nobody can match, we are addicted to buying cheap crap nobody needs, have a dispose everything mentality, meanwhile our population is less happy than most of our peer countries.We just got back from visiting my family in Europe and after we landed at OHare and sat in a dirty, beat up shutte bus getting us to the parking lot over a cracked concrete road, garbage on the side of the road, power lines hanging everywhere, my US born wife shook her head said: I can't believe how run down and ****** everything is here..The US is a fantastic country and I have chosen to live here for a good reason, but we really need to get our head of our you know what and start thinking about where we want to be a few decades. 

The problem that I have with the so called cash flow markets is that high day one cash flow at retail price is often a symptom off poor supply and demand fundamentals ... aka more homes than people to fill them.With the appreciation markets, if you are right about the long term strong supply and demand fundamentals, you get both price appreciation and cash flow (from rent increases).

Not trying to be argumentative here, just hoping to bring some value to the conversation:Mold is a symptom, not a problem.  

I couldn't even be in the same room she was keeping the rabbits for more than a few minutes without developing sever allergies & strong asthmatic symptoms.

I asked that no toxic anti- rodent products be used as I have cats and discussed that they could cause toxicity if my cats caught a mouse.I did not put the request in writing.This past week my young cat became rapidly ill within a few hours and died from what appeared to the symptoms common of Bromethalin.

Or whenever home builders start building again like previous decades in the past to meet the demand. the economic research I am reading indicates millennials are less likely to live with parents after graduation from university compared to prior generations and they are choosing to rent for now to remain mobile. they are not buying homes in significant numbers. that demand is creating all the rent price inflation. recessions do not equal home price deflation. recessions in 1981, 1982, 1991, and 2001 saw very little to no impact on home prices. the Great Recession was only recession caused by housing/lending. prior recessions home price was a symptom not a cause. just before the Great Recession there was a housing shortage. today, the Fed is specifically targeting house price inflation. rather than let all the QE mature and roll off the Fed is selling those assets prior to maturity increasing supply and increasing yields which will push up mortgage interest rates. that could impact buyer demand in some markets. when interest mortgage interest rates hit 5% buyer purchasing power is cut 17% to 21%, but that may not deter buyers with lots of cash reserves. we are seeing all cash sales 25% nationally. we are seeing sales with financing and buyers paying cash for low appraisal differential. 

She's 50, with diabetes, so she cannot go get a new job. 

But I will do my best.1: No, I think gentrification is a symptom of larger issues.