I have a listing that I can't sell because the bank declined to do a short, and then sold the loan to another servicing company.

I made a video about someone offering me a townhouse for free in that complex (I declined taking it for free), ton more info is in there you'd need to google it.

I look for slow population growth, or slow decline and an area with lots of renters.

My gut is telling me that the correct decision would be to decline the offer since I do not intend for this to be my only property.

Also Know Condos tend to be the last to rise in a hot market, and first to fall in a declining market, with larger swings than houses. you dont have control of financibility to a future buyer either, if the HOA becomes insolvent or the level of foreclosures reach a specific level the Secondary market will not lend in that complex, these factors in a downturn push your values significantly lower. if you are in it for the long haul, and plan to be paid off by the end of your loan term fine, no problem, but be prepaired to be stuck with the property when markes change. 

The housing market ramped up right after that season of storms for about three months and then began to decline again""With incomes certain to remain flat (as they did) and mortgage rates certain to rise due to the Federal Reserve’s quantitative tightening (as they did), predicting a housing-market collapse for this summer seemed as easy as it was in 2007"This could be the very beginning of a turning point,” said Robert Shiller, a Nobel Prize-winning economist who is famed for warning of the dot-com and housing bubbles….

The Midwest provides an excellent opportunIty because when the property values decline, rents stayed stable.

Investors are slowing in Illinois I have noticed lately and I have also seen a tremendous amount of capital repair declines from Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae in the area.

I asked her to see the house, but she declined because she said it's a mess.

Amadeus:Quadraplexes at 25 to 40K per unit will be rare - even here on the East Coast - and you will mostly find them in small communities (whose economic prospects are stagnant or declining), undesirable parts of town, or they will be in a desperate state.