And, as long as that's the case then there will be money to be made by investing in real estate.As @Joel Owens stated, any dips in sales volume or prices need to be taken into account along with the historic run-up of sales volume and prices over the past several years.

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I guess where I have heartburn is when people claim the ONLY way they can run their investment profitably is if they do it all themselves.

That spoke volumes to me and it tells us all we really needed to know about our tenants.We enjoy finding houses and having them rehabbed, as landloards it is so nice to call our PM about a week before we complete a house and within a couple of weeks of being completed, the house is under lease with tenants we are confident in.  

Consider charging an application fee to weed out the people who are not seriousHave people put down a deposit the day of the showing if they are interested Ive done the google forms before but i dont think it works well in controlling volume neither did it bring us the tenants we eventually acceptedAnd definitely agree with @Marcia MaynardReview your approval criteria, if you can get someone that meets your criteria then I wouldnt bother waiting for the open house.

I think it is possible that the mice got in through the refurbished warehouse especially if they're doing any considerable amount of volume with appliances coming and going.

Depending on how much volume you put out there, it could become time intensive to have the conversations. 

Volumes have been down and banks do not appear to be discounting like before.

Certainly as BP becomes more popular, the volume of activity will drive some conversations down.

Volume of home sales are very low, inventory is high, but the prices have not decreased.I would think there would have to be some type of correlation between commodity prices and the housing market in an economy so reliant upon oil.