As a buy-and-hold investor, this topic once scared me, however for some reason I am led to believe that this influx of cash is influencing the RE market rebound more than we might realize.

There are a lot of moving parts, but the profit potential is substantial.

Your business model needs to build in performance bonuses that are substantial.

., so the closing costs will be substantially higher than for a single property.

I'm not sure they are as popular as they were 20+ years ago.If capital gains taxes go up substantially I believe the section 1031 exchange will become well used again.

I am in a little different boat and have the near perfect credit, substantial w2 employment that might make me an attractive partner to lenders.

That's my thought without reviewing the contract, which hopefully had this covered on what would happen.I'm not a huge fan of lease options but typically there is a substantial deposit made for the option (typically non refundable).

The differential has to be substantial for it to matter much.You also buy yourself a lot of flexibility to make lower payments and I think almost everyone on this board can beat the interest rate when investing money.

hmmmm... more data is needed to qualify this assumption as well as help figure and further guesstimate how employment influences and is influenced in such a trend.so here's a question for the more seasoned investors (maybe specifically in the socal market, but also to those outside the market)... what marker do you figure new construction pencils?

Use your influence as a group to address little issues and blight.