Things will pick up again near the end of February.

I just wanted to pick the community's brains and get an idea of what people predict the upcoming year for housing/construction/rental markets will bring us?

We've had 4 stays through New Year's and are expecting things to pick up as we continue into the new year.We also have a single family home in suburban Austin that we currently lease annually. 

If you want to turn one/some units the pick the worst of the lot and follow your state laws to evict.the others may then learn to be cooperative.who is in charge here

We ship out these machines to our customers via LTL trucking (most of them are 3/4 to 1 ton pick up trucks with 35-foot gooseneck trailers). 

I like how you highlighted the importance of picking the right market and property management.

The best resource for information in my opinion is the podcasts themselves I've listened to the first 300 or so at least 3 times and am constantly picking up new bits of information.

Yes but I have 32 years at this and I cherry pick my A-team on anything new / evolutionary

Pick properties like that; example:  Great School Districts, geographical limitations (mountains, rivers, lakes), gated communities, etc. 

We wrote the seller a kind letter asking her to pick us!