The exceptions tend to occur when you have a small town that becomes a popular place and new subdivisions start being built and when existing housing comes to market (gets listed) they sell quickly.Hope this helped.  

It's a business, not a popularity contest. ;-)

In a culinary first, the popular Fletcher Place brunch spot Milk Tooth was named one of the world's best restaurants by Conde Nast Traveler, who also named Indy as a top underrated food city.

@Brian Nordman buying term and investing the difference is a popular strategy that is used by the masses but I would argue that if you are investing in real estate and on this site you are most likely not part of the masses from a wealth perspective and more likely in the top 25% of wealth earners in the country.  

Tahoe has 2 or 3 very slow months but they are carried by the busy months (Tahoe is a popular destination in both winter and summer). 

Craigslist is not popular with new generation and educated folks anymore.

MAREI is a popular group with a multitude of knowledgeable investors. 

When it comes to the loan, however, an individual, rather than the corporate entity, must sign as the responsible party.Limited liability companies have become popular everywhere because of the limited liability provided for everyone involved, and because of the pass-through taxation-a benefit shares with S corporations and limited partnerships, of course.Moreover, the LLC, unlike the corporation, does not require yearly shareholders meetings and various other formalities.Despite the current preference for LLCs, limited-partnerships remain an excellent tool for syndication because of the limited liability provided for the investors.

Maybe you could mitigate them by diversifying a bit: maybe instead of the lower cost (40-55k) ones you said you're in maybe start to look either at a different 'class of properties' (which might require a different source of deals as well, like say probate/estate deals) and/or look at maybe investing in a place or a different way that would handle a downturn better like: (and these are just spitball ideas, not suggestions) but maybe like in a destination city, or in destination city with AirBnB-type rentals, or a military area, or a really popular/strong college town for investors which may not 'dip' as low in rental demand or something...just something to consider. 

Schertz is a popular area, especially for military families based at Randolph and Ft Sam and we're just getting into the busy season for military moves here in SA.