I believe that birth rates will continue to stay low and college attendance for graduating high school students will continue to rise.

I've read that 8% is a realistic and fairly conservative cap rate, so it would seem that someone could retire owning $500k in rental property free and clear and live off the income as long as they need (approximately $40,000 per year, while rents could then be adjusted upward for inflation as time goes by).

There are already electric hybrids that use very little gas.More are slated for 2014 - 2015.If gas goes any higher and stays there it could be a death knell for suburban areas.More people will move to more dense urban living where they can walk and bike to work to reduce costs to survive.Used to there was a small class of the rich,a big middle class,and a small poverty class.Now the rich class is bigger,the poverty is bigger,and the middle class is shrinking into non-existence.Costs are going to rise and keep getting worse and worse.I want to be on the wealthy side.In many instances it is getting cheaper for me to eat out then buy at the grocery store.I can get a 3 course meal at Red Lobster for 7.99 and get 2 meals out of it.The restaurants are not having to raise prices at the rate of the grocery stores because alcohol sales drive most of the profits.If people think it is bad now it is going to get much worse.We need to stop depending on gas for transportation.It's a dead resource on it's way out.

The problem is they all claim things like "I make $2000/month with my gas wells, but I turned them off to wait for the price to rise".

It can't just go sit in a bank and lose value to inflation.

BRRRing duplexes in SoFl can be difficult since the prices of even the run down multis are pretty inflated, but you can definitely find some decently cash flowing duplexes/triplexes if you look diligently.

Mostly because the market in Seattle is so inflated that the rental rates would need to be extremely high to generate good cash flow.

My GUESS is in 2023 or 2024 prices will slip 5-10% back to 2022 prices if interest rates rise and the economy slows. 

I invest in apartment complexes and since 2016 we have increased rents for 1br and 2br units approximately $200-$300 a unit and rents keep rising and it is landlord friendly and the average price per unit we paid was about $35,000 a unit and we have over 230 units in Apartment complexes.Swanny

Havre De Grace schools and rising population seem to indicate good things.