My guess is this is nothing but a Christmas bump and it will drop out in January to February.Many of these jobs are low to median income.They do nothing but keep people paying utilities and rent but not have much discretionary money to spend and boost the economy.

Until consumer confidence in their job returns there will be little boost to the housing market.

It would save me a huge chunk of change every year and the home values would take an immediate boost but I really feel like the funding for the roads, police department, fire department, and schools isn't something to mess with.Thoughts?

Vflyer is taking market share from Postlets, which was bought by Zillow to boost its share of the rental advertising market.Speaking of which, Zillow and Trulia are the two fastest growing rental advertising sites.The City-Data forums are a great place to search for this type of info for a particular area.

Besides, it is hard to answer a question like this accurately without knowing some details, one of which is investment amount as answers would change dramatically with different investment amounts.

The percentage of properties purchased by 3rd party bidders at auction has increased dramatically.

If you put all your trust into a team of people you have never met face to face you are, IMHO, dramatically increasing the risk.Don't fall into the trap of thinking you HAVE to own rental properties.

If it's the later and you're not trying to increase the rent dramatically, why not try to find a temporary place for the tenant for a month and pay for it?

I think just lowering the water bill and increasing rents on small units should boost monthly cash flow to about $300/month.

So you'll have some boost to your buying power due to that, hopefully.