The Austin area real estate market continues displaying incredible resiliency in the face of extremely low housing inventory and economic challenges related to the COIVD-19.

I’m having trouble finding the demographic and economic information based on where the book says to look (Census.gov data tables) and was wondering if any more experienced investors knew of better sources to find the necessary data to analyze markets?

How are they projecting economic vacancy? 

My plan is to pursue offers where economic down turn can be mitigated somewhat, dont know if this is a realistic expectation.

“REAL ESTATE CRISIS. 6 million homeowners in FORBEARANCE.

@Michael Plaks I was thinking in way of when banks did short sales and the borrower rec’d a 1099 for the “forgiven debt” (even though the feds exempted them from the tax in the housing crisis fall out) ie.

Economic Update(Monday, October 19, 2020)At its core, real estate is a people business, and being kind to people is a business approach that never goes wrong.

So we need a tighter range for population size.Economic Diversity & StrengthWe want economic strength, but too much is linked with growth, which is linked with rapidly rising prices and competition, which means you get no deals!

It seems to me that there are huge divisions in economic status.

Being in Iowa we typically, from what I've heard, do not get hit too hard by the economic down turns especially relative to other parts of the country.