I have a tenant who I lowered rent by 50$ and cuts the lawn and handles snow.

How about lawn care/snow removal?

Another issue is that owners will defer repairs and maintenance because it's a cost, and with artificially low rents, means low returns, and less budget to make needed repairs and maintenance.

I haven't had rentals since '98 or so, but here were some rates that I was charging back then:Mowing lawn-$50.

Have your kids do the laundry, wash the cars, mow the lawns(where you maintain a home office) etc.

I add up the cost to buy, the cost to repair, and the cost to sell.Don't forget the holding costs...Mortgage, Property Taxes, Utilities, Lawn Care, etc...

I found charts 7 and 9 shocking simply because they made points that I hadn’t considered before - the massive amounts of people 12, even 24 months delinquent on their mortgages, but still in their homes, happily spending away the money that they should be paying on their loans, and artificially stimulating the economy in the process so that our current administration can spin this into good news - consumer spending is up!

One would hope that the Fed wouldn't artificially increase interest rates based on the *expectation* of inflation; in which case, it's reasonable to assume that real estate returns will continue to track inflation, as it has pretty much done for the past 100 years and there wouldn't be significant risk in leverage or real estate equity.

Not only does it artificially boost your post count and influence score (not accusing you of this but there have been others in the past), but it also disrupts the flow of the conversation in my opinion.

Artificial wealth...not actual wealth...This "paper wealth" was the result of bubbles...artificial inflation of the stock and housing markets...Things have merely returned to about where you would expect them to be given long-term trends; unfortunately, Americans over-leveraged themselves based on the paper wealth, and are now feeling the sting of bad decisions.People just need to take responsibility for not saving and investing intelligently when times were good...