If your holding time is 10 years you could see the retail market return and prices escalate at a good pace once mortgage money is available.

It is easier to do it at our own pace.  

In the end there was great info but I felt like they were pushing their agenda.....which I'm sure they were because people signing up for the class equals more money for them.

Low housing inventory is a continuing constraint on sales:Brandy Guthrie, 2017 President of the Austin Board of REALTORS­® commented, “The Austin-Round Rock housing market continues to slightly outperform last year’s home sales activity, keeping 2017 on-pace for another record year for home sales.

I want to get some advice on how I could develop the meetup further, possibly creating an agenda, bringing in guest speakers, and always bringing in more investors, agents, and the like to create even more networking opportunities. 

Ultimately, unless you are in the apartment all the time; which you wouldn't be, how are you going to know someone on the couch has an evil agenda - to not pay rent and stay as long as you can.I have already taken steps that will be the new protocol going forward.1) Tighten up the lease and add additional emphasis on the NO SUBLETTING clause. 

will probably take 12-24 months to get back to Jan-Feb economic pace.

. - If the virus continues at the rapid pace it is at, it's going to be hard for the vibrant local economy (restaurants especially) to stay afloat. - Aging homes at elevated prices MAY be less attractive to out of towners. 

AND even if the house had issues, she is acting like an abuser, because she has a personal agenda and is using all bad circumstances as an excuse...!

I tried to explain to him that people that make money NEVER just sit on the beach for the rest of their life, they continue doing whatever it was that made them rich in the first place (possibly at a slower pace) until the day they die, that's what keeps them alive.