While rent growth in 2022 is still higher than any previous year on record, it is the fourth month in a row year-over-year rent growth declined,” note Yardi Matrix analysts.Yardi Matrix said rents are forecast to increase at slower rates for the rest of 2022 as the economy “cools off.”Inflation rates will take a while to ebb, “causing consumers to cut into savings and their ability to afford increasing rental rates will lessen as the year goes on,” states the latest report.Meanwhile, rents in the single-family build-to-rent (BTR) sector continue to grow and reached another all-time high of $2,071 after climbing $23 in June.

Investor activity is slowing, sales are slowing, and the economy is slowing.  

Me personally - I think we are in a very mild recession and I think unemployment will increase slightly, but I think our economy is strongly positioned to handle a small recession. 

As a 20 something year old realtor in New Orleans, I must say, its tough finding a good fourplex deal that makes sense on the MLS. I am very anxious and worried I won't be able to purchase my first house hack property...

When the economy changes and you own Alligators, it can cause a major headache in your life. 

I do think it would be a great cashflow and start to our investment portfolio.The cashflow would help build revenue to fund future deals but what I've been learning is that building savings to purchase down-payments (which is extremely difficult in this economy) would take an eternity to scale.

As the economy stabilizes, appreciation will slow down or even go down.

As the US economy is driven into 'stagflation' - as prices rise and real purchasing power falls -  will manufactured housing drive out site built ? 

Admittedly, you may find that underwriters are being somewhat conservative with all of the uncertainty in the economy, inflationary pressures, interest rates, etc.

Plus doing a housing development in our economy is dangerous.