Again, your locale may vary, but it usually takes complaints and unresolved serious code violations (health/safety) to reach a point where you have to vacate the premise.

Vacancy is 26% for both actual and economic.

Economic growth or decline at a local level cares little about international currency trading levels.More important, I think, is that somewhere down the road we need to see a return to the correlation, at least on a national level, of inflation to real estate apreciation that went out of whack early in the last decade.IMO, real estate values will remain location, location, location.

It has a great health plan and a fantastic pension plan.

I have auto ins, health ins, etc., not because I plan on crashing or getting ill.

From what I've read thus far, REI authors touch on this subject in only the most general terms -- i.e. to evaluate a market, one should consider population growth, economic conditions, infrastructure, average cap rates, housing supply and demand, the legal environment, etc.

I believe that the 30% downpayment rule made our banking system and real estate industry resilient to global economic trends.

The US economic productivity and output is fantastic by almost any measure.

Not to mention the serious health risks involved from the chemicals you are smelling.

The last two on the list are questionable, but I hope for the best (plus they have company paid health care for retirees as long as you have been there 20 years).