Vast supply - too many apartments-for-rent in the area. which links to the next one:2.

.- Whenever there is anyone who wants to be on title while not supplying anything I don't even consider it.

That's just simple supply and demand, assuming that there are jobs in or near the area your investing.I do think that high unemployment as well as lack of motivation for people to get off their a** and find a job will have an effect.

Thus an decrease in the occupancy rates.When will people begin to understand SUPPLY and DEMAND?

As a retirement strategy with the Fed doubling the monetary supply, you have to realize that a repeat of inflation above the 1970s era levels is likely.

"Talk is cheap, because supply always exceeds demand".

To put in an initial offer, through the selling agent, what would you suggest I supply to have the best chance of the bank accepting my offer?

In Germany, the tenants supply their own kitchens and bathroom fixtures, sinks and toilets, painting, and flooring.An empty apartment has no light fixtures, fans, window treatments.

It is the supply and demand factors today that determine sales price.

Here is a quote from an article in The Maui News, 29Aug10,"Maui's foreclosure picture 'not pretty'""...with nearly a thousand single-family homes and condominiums currently pending foreclosure - nearly double the numbers from a year ago...Still, with little new home construction, these listings are supplying the inventory that has brought a kind of normalcy to the real estate market..."