And then, more recently, how that dark shadow of inflation-doom had descended from Mordore, and the watchful "eye" had dropped a death-blow of rate increases, that this WAS it, the end, a collapse unlike any other, '08'-2.0 but on steroids, a certainty of impending "crash".........

School bus also drops kids off there.

We recently had a client ask us to drop our fees.

and dropped our expectation to find the near perfect one for substantially less.

We have the price dropped to $355K now and we'll keep it there until the end of this month.

I keep some rentals that are local to me so I can always drop by and the rest of my investing is into other people's deals where I am earning 8% to 20% without having to do much work. 

Growing up I thought that this was "normal" and how much of the world lived, it wasn't until I dropped out of college that this was the opposite of the truth.

If you are buying properties that need rehab, make sure the deal is deep enough to withstand price drops.

Drop the rent.

In many areas of CLT you're looking at dropping $330K-$350K just to secure a SFR and it's a bit hard to make the #'s work based on the rents the market can afford.