I most disagreed with the hostile environment being a big impact as we have near nation low delinquency and eviction and some of the best tenants statistically of any large city market.  

There are a lot of boomers out there.I know that people are moving out of some areas of the bay area and into areas like Sacramento and the surrounding areas for quality of living reasons.It would be interesting to see statistics but, I think that boomers would be pretty high on the group who has left or will be.

You can find the statistical data via the major moving companies, and I believe Ken McElroy recommended this site for that purpose:  https://www.northamerican.com/.... 

RE prices do not peak in June/July as they usually do- As vacancies pile up *some* landlords result in panic selling June/July, but not enough to be statistically relevant (at least in my own market in AZ).

At Mynd Management, we use our own proprietary data to provide owners with the best market statistics for real estate investors in all of our 19 markets and offer all of our owners their own online rental collection platform. 

@Joe PrillamanGreat, very encouraging ....Just relocated to the U.S , currently working a 9-5 job but always set my mind to real estate , at the moment I am reading materials and trying to understand the lingo of the game , I just hope after all the reading I am bold enough to get to the practical stage .

The typical property we target has the following characteristics:Single familySale price < $400,000Bedrooms: 3 to 4Garage: 2 to 3Stories: 1 or 2Note that while the green area appears homogeneous, in actuality it is more like Swiss cheese.Below you will find the statistics we generate each month.

The mortgage servicer is also out to make a profit on the service that they compete and bid on with other mortgage servicers .There are literally only a handful of notes called due or prosecutions each year that it is statistically insignificant. 

There are statistics out there that you can analyze in order to see some things such as:Growth rate of the city: A decline in growth is a bad sign for the town.

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