Unless property prices and rents are rising at or above the rate of inflation, the buying power of the rent you are receiving is actually declining over time.

I declined for identity theft reasons, he claims that he just wants to know whats so wrong with my credit.I tell him it is just high utilization, he tells me I need to fix my credit so I can apply for business credit.

As a  property manager, I will politely decline to work in war/bad areas. 

I generally interview a lot of candidates and I verbally decline/weed out those who just on the surface would not qualify (smoker, guy with 15 snakes, person trying to re-negotiate the rent down, someone asking me if an eviction will be a problem or if I plan on calling their last landlord, or asking about a payment grace period).

Can't compete with that, but I recently had a CFD borrower decline my modification offer that would have lowered her payment by about 40% by extending the term.

National vs local can be very different.I don’t foresee a real estate market decline, I don’t think that values will continue to rise as rapidly as they currently are but I also don’t see a decline in the near future.

At the national level you could have half seeing sharp declines and the other half large increases and overall at the national level it is flat.

.* Keep your debt levels low and always take out debt with long maturity tails, even if the interest rates are higher than shorter term debt, because this will insulate you against being forced to refinance during a downturn* Favor properties in areas with higher population density, a growing employment base, and a history of not having declined in value precipitously during the last downturn.3.

The rebates are starting to decline and will be gone in the next few years (2021 or '22 I think), so I am curious to see if anyone has any experience. 

It was listed at $65,000 after several price declines from $112,000.