The bad news was because of the poor appraisals and the lenders ask of the appraisers to structure the appraisal more heavily weighting the comp vs. income approach I had to write the largest check of my life just to refi out.

This is in comparison to the national market trends, where pending sales are up 6.2% week-over-week since March 12.https://cbsaustin.com/news/local/zillow-sees-first-positive-signs-for-austin-home-sales-according-to-new-report?

(it's only $400.00 per month) I think tenants have seen enough misleading news reports to think they just don't have to pay during this event.

@jaysen medhurst Thats good news.

Women and Real Estate Investing: Good news ladies information is free and there are many successful men and woman in the business who respect you as a serious businesswoman in the RE business and will gladly be willing to step in on a deal to give you sounds advice/info (for free!).

We greatly value time in the outdoors; camping, hiking, sports, hunting, etc, and finding this on the East is a nightmare. 

The more I see the housing news I'm convinced that there's tons of people that are going to leave San Francisco, LA, New York, etc.

It’s an expensive sport and not many 20 year olds are taking it up.

Such amazing news.

They are low, and will likely stay low by historic standards over the next year or two, but it's quite possible that they will tick up if the stock market continues to perform well.Mortgage interest rates most closely correlate with the yield on the 10 year US Treasury bonds, not the Fed Funds rate that you hear about so much in the news.