Here's a fundamental explanation to get your juices flowing:Assume a house costs $200,000 and rents for $1,500.

Hunter,Couple additional thoughts here but you will have to evaluate if the juice is worth the squeeze.

I actually wanted to own 5000 of them.. and probably could have gotten there but holy cow Juice no way worth the squeeze.

To other points made on this thread, occasionally the juice isn't worth the squeeze.

It’s no accident that many of the groups you see today running into serious trouble are groups that acquired a lot of assets near the market peak using tools such as this that juiced projected investor return. 

The smaller platforms will probably account for only a fraction of overall bookings, so the juice may not be worth the squeeze. 

I started out with the equal amount of Tesla 6 months ago and my Tesla shares have increased 4 times that of bitcoin.My advice is to just keep lookong for better real estate deals and keep some of your cash in the good old greenback as well...There is nothing like being able to pounce on the good deals when everyone else is stuck in an asset that just went belly up!

We're never going to fix this supply problem for housing unless we can juice the number of builds getting done to where its back to normal (i.e. pre boom times from 2005 to 2008).The federal government should do the exact same thing to stretch the money.  25k down payment assistance for first time home buyers who buy new construction homes as a no interest loan payable only upon sale or transfer (i.e. if the person dies and someone inherits, that 25k could be called due). 

Make sure your flooring can withstand pee, spilled beer, spilled juice, blood etc...

@Paul Azad weather the juice is worth the squeeze depends on the specific deal and details.