This growth aligns with the expected spring surge in demand and represents a 1.9% decrease compared to April 2022.However, it's important to note that new listings experienced a significant month-over-month decline of 12.9%.

Landlords will sell and rental units will decrease in the city leading to higher rents and more competition for units.Oregon as a state is a rough regulatory environment for landlords, you really have to know what you are doing or hire a property manager, if you want to invest in Oregon, I would look to areas that are not regulated in addition to what the state has already done.

So you constantly have this equity creation through the value increasing while the loan balance decreased.

When you see DOM increasing and prices decreasing, that's heading toward the bottom. 

If interest rates increase to 7%, the price must decrease by 10.9%, or almost $40,000, to have the same monthly payment.

Here's some key data on the average rent, days on market and percentage of listings that are seeing a rent decrease.

Do not buy anywhere state or metro populations are stagnant or decreasing. - Metropolitan statistical areaLow crime - High crime and long-term appreciation and rent growth are mutually exclusive.

Most of them are rent by the room strategies with 5+ bed homes and using various types of grant programs to pay down interest rate and decrease closing costs.

I have a pre approval on hand but with higher interest rates and market prices still high for which I see price decrease but nothing pre-pandemic level.

Now this doesn't necessarily fix your income and qualifying concern but would greatly decrease your cash out of pocket and allow you to use that cash else where.