Another company with a similar growth pattern is Enterprise Rent A Car.

With a light refurbishment to attract good long term tenants and good rents plus potential long term hold ie 10years for growth -bonus if it happens.

He clearly believes that slowing economic growth is the equivalent of deflation.

Over the last 3 years, there's been a 28.7% growth in the median sale price of small multifamilies.

On our side, we like liked a lot of things about the city; stable job growth, major university for student rentals, lots of potential for Airbnb properties, proximity to Phoneix, the only red flag we did not like was it did not follow our 1% rule. 

With the amount of growth our area is seeing take into consideration appreciation (about 6% in Wake County).

Columbus is the only Ohio market that has seen a rapid growth in jobs and population.Cincinnati and Cleveland, Ohio are solid too.

I think there are a lot of variables for each of these options to determine why and where you would invest, here are my thoughts based on a "broad view" of each market.If you continued to invest in Atlanta, obviously there will continue to be growth and appreciation, depending on the location.

There's hundreds of other lenders who are small in size and table fund or maybe even fund into origination and there cash reserves are funded by LPs, Family Offices or High Net Worth Individuals ... but the 10-12 with institutional sponsors have seen tremendous growth since 2016.

I can see how restructuring for growth may be something that needs to happen regularly.