Examples of such work or tasks include guiding people who are blind, alerting people who are deaf, pulling a wheelchair, alerting and protecting a person who is having a seizure, reminding a person with mental illness to take prescribed medications, calming a person with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) during an anxiety attack, or performing other duties.

The first two I paid cash by taking money off a low interest credit card so that payment is figured into everything).I mainly look for cash flow and don't even look at depreciation on taxes or any appreciation in value...I just consider tax benefits bonuses and don't rely on appreciation at all because it is a depressed area.

My reasoning it that you'll get a better deal and much better ROI with depressed property than something that is already occupied and ready to go.

. -- I'm leaning more towards getting into single and multi-family home rentalsWhile I'm fixing my financial situation (I have terrible credit and my student loan debt depressing), I figured I could learn all I can and be ready to hit the ground running, once my personal finances allow me to get to the point of comfortably getting out there.Since I don't have much money (or I should say I have zero money) to work with, I was thinking about using my web design and photography skills to build relationships with others that are currently in my area doing what I want to do.

So, I took a pretty involved short sale training class/certification (Certified Depressed Property Expert).

Looks like the house needs work including the foundation.I also trying to find my farm area, so far I have been looking at suburbs north of Dallas with good schools, however I am worried about going into to much of a depressed area.

Anyway, $20k/yr x 5 years could very well pay it off if it was valued when housing was depressed. 

Brooklyn Park has some really depressed home prices for SF homes.  

The large commercial projects in the pipeline are huge and large new projects being announced regularly so we should see this get back to normal or better in 12 - 24 months.I don't monitor the outlying counties as much, but they still look depressed.  

This data comes from the latest report where I look at annual market cycles and recent trends for Dane County and the 6 regions that make it up.You're absolutely right that supply will likely remain depressed as people are still worried about having strangers in their home.