One of the things that is unique about this current environment is institutions are in game gobbling up properties at a higher level than ever before.  

However, I think they cared less about the cost/value and did it for the warm fuzzy feeling you get by doing something that is "good" for the environment.

  :) :) :)i suggest you start doing deals and build a network of other experienced investors in your locale environment. 

Simply diffusing a therapeutic-grade essential oil regularly will likely result in an environment very hostile to mold.

Tenants- even good ones- WILL push those limits because people want control over their environment.

In the areas that prices are still reasonable (outside of city core), the rental saturation is higher in an environment of raising property taxes - in other words, rents stagnate or go lower while taxes continue higher, making the economics even weaker. 

Under the current environment, there is so much other stuff going on that I think Section 8 won't even be addressed for a few years, Could be wrong tho'.

In this rising interest rate environment and in this REI stage I’m in now (growth), I think this is prudent for me. 

So far, I've found it's mostly about psychology, stability in a fundamentally destabilizing environment where the complex, age-old psychological concepts of home and hearth are constantly called into question by the nature of the businessI don't think it can seriously be argued that humans have not always felt affinity, a connection to the places we live.

I think that in this environment some of the things that may work are: - Assumable mortgages, especially for house-hackers.