In my areas there is a shortage of GOOD housing stock for tenants, many other landlords are slumlords, but if you do a good job, have the RIGHT MANAGEMENT TEAM in place there is money to be made (but its not easy, if it was easy everyone would be rich).

Charles Schwab says the stock market returns are expected to be 6.3% annually for the next 10 years, so 7% is e-z money for them. 

If the investor can make the same amount of profit in the stock market without having to do all of the work of rehabbing a property, why would he take the risk of buying the property?

Therefore theirs less housing.This is unless the government starts building cheap housing and that's not happening either.They need developers to create more supply and investors to fix up old housing stock (BRRRR method etc) and revitalize cities. 

I lived through the crash of 08 to 2011 in the lower end rental markets and I ended up foreclosing on 200 plus homes.. when financing dried up ( and I am not predicting this will happen again so no one flame me) but when it did.. values of these rentals in the mid west crashed HARD.. 

What this person is going through is no unique and actually is very common for out of area investors buying C class propertiesI don't care who you have manage these things it could be JC himself the tenant base just does not allow for any kind of predictable returns.Here in PDX were we have 1% vacancy factor and you put a rental in craigs list and get 20 responses in 2 hours with most of the folks 700 plus fico's that's just not reality in these markets..

Since the top 10% of U.S. households is heavily dependent on bonuses, ownership of stocks, real estate appreciation, etc. for their income gains, a rollover in equities and residential real estate would negatively impact the "wealth effect" that has powered their five-year long shopping spree.3.

I see stand-alone basement toilets in a lot of the older housing stock here in Cincinnati.

I am to receive some stock pay out from my recently acquired Medical Company.If I boil this all down I guess I come to this. 1.

It is worthy to note Warren bought his first stock at a time when America was about to enguage in war and ever since all his investments sustained worth or value in spite of difficult times.