For 3 years her & her attorney husband have been trying to buy a home in the inflated priced 'trendy' part of old town, now they have missed the boat on mtg rates, so she is depressed, because with current mtg rates she will now need to work 40 hrs a week & send the 9month old to weekly daycare.

In theory, we should see wage inflation kicking in at some point which may drive higher rents sooner than some anticipate. 

Imo in the next 12 months the Fed will either cause a recession or solve inflation.

PA's take a fee or % of the claim and will get it inflated for sure, but ... many (most?)

We have serious inflation, coupled with a recession that may last a couple years.....just not a real sure time to be building new.How about buying some existing houses on the cheap?

The numbers doesn't looks good right now but might be better in a year or two.Normally, with seller financing the price for said properties are highly inflated. 350K in Cincinnati for a current running rent at 800, 700, 500 looks difficult to justify.Here what I would do, I will take that same address a pre-shop mortgage with current rental income.Normally, the mortgage company will take 75% of rental income and add it to your current wage.See what the mortgage will be per month.

I'm actually in a weird place right now where I'm afraid to hold cash due to all the FEDS money printing and inflation, but I'm also afraid to invest in the stock market because I think it's in a huge bubble, and I'm afraid to invest in real estate because I think we are at a peak, and there still seems to be a buying frenzy going on. 

There are plenty of people that have been on sidelines watching as real estate has continued to move up and now that inflation is rearing its ugly head it's very hard to predict where the floor is going to be when a downturn does happen.

Feds are meeting discussing inflation and expect to raise the prime up an additional 3/4 to 1%.

.$1,000 could be earned in about 1.5 weeks.That's not very much money, to LLC up with an attorney can take more than that.the 10% inflation they just kicked in ($30,000 minimum wage income per year X 10% = $3,000)The $2,000 they gave you just evaporated and you are now $1,000 in the hole (what the right hand givith the left hand taketh away--in spades).Seriously if they really wanted to push Female owned businesses up and increase their earnings--the grants should be 10 or 20 times (at a minimum) that--but with these petty amounts they treat you like a cheap date.With $20,000 in your bank account for business use, it gives you a lot more options to make more money than $1,000.Nothing wrong with taking free money--but keep it in perspective (especially when they tax you at year end)--these tiny amounts are not going to produce life changing earning potential in a small business.for comparison in Austin they are giving $1 million dollar grant to the Black community (now that is some serious working capital that they can do something with to better their lives) https://www.statesman.com/story/news/local/2022/08/31/austin-tx-grant-prepares-give-1-million-black-community/65465865007/The Women always get such tiny amounts, the table scraps of grants it seems like.Good Luck with Real Estate, and in your business!