City and local governments work with investors as they are a great economic driver and provide stability and housing.

For investors, you can find properties here that still meet the 1%+ rule Toledo is mad dope yo.

Inflation primary drivers right now are shortage of labor and fuel costs.  

Being self employed , you have to prepare for worst case . i made financial decisions , so if business slowed down , I could still cover my bills as a CDL driver . ( Never had to ) . 

Then one day the building is falling apart and everyone is mad because there is no money to fix anything. 

I like that I can blend in when I’m with my contractors who don’t drive really nice new stuff and I like that I can blend in when I go to rougher houses and not “look rich” but I’m only human and it’s about to run its course because sometimes I do think non-investor clients care ** a little ** about you being in a decent car.  

We have an applicant trying to complete an application for one of our rentals, but they do not have a social security number or a driver's license number- which are required fields for our background and credit check.

Yes, i see many of these holding attraction power and what-not BUT in context of "significant growth", no, these areas already had a mad-dash "gold-rush" of people and it's clearly stepped back to consolidation.

I hope you would not get mad at a power company or City if a hurricane/tornado knocked out the power and it was taking them time to get it back on, this is no different.

Same as driving for Uber, after the market matures, nobody makes money, the Uber driver tired as they don't have too many calls,etc.