Existing housing will still be in increasing demand as new careers and new families are begun.My $0.02 ...

At higher strata higher interest rates consume purchasing power, and at lower strata due to buyers lowered capacity to purchase more are pressed into lower price points, driving up demand, as well as shifting buyers into delayed purchase ability better known as "renting".    

It would take an outbreak that has some serious killing power, because it would take about 30m deaths to have some sizable off-setting effect to housing demand. As

Or demand a rent reduction ?

Hi Auryana, New homes typically demand a premium, for obvious reasons.

If the REALTOR gave you false information, file a complaint with the Broker and demand (a) they refund the money, or (b) they cover the cost of removing the bad Tenant.

It’s a bit of a vicious cycle bc tons of LTR investors searching for yield have pivoted to STRs and are happy to take ~10% COC returns since that beats what they can find today with LTRs … problem is STRs are much riskier/ more volatile, so in theory investors should demand a higher yield than this to hold these assets (but most folks aren’t thinking in this much depth).

I want to attract and demand a good tenant, one that will treat my property with respect.

Feel free to shoot me a message and I can send some of those over.Regarding duplexes you're right, they're few and far between and the ones that do get listed will demand a premium and likely not make a good first time investment property.

As stated get the sewer line/lines inspected with a camera and if the seller will not fix before closing then demand a discount or cash back at closing to cover the costs and make sure the contractor you hire in that case is authorized through the city to work on or connect to the city sewer system (not all contractors are, in fact some municipalities only have 1 or 2 authorized contractors they allow to touch their lines).