I tried calling Public housing authority all over Philly but all reps are declining to provide any information to speak to anyone. 

The tenant profile had also dramatically declined from summer to winter.

Local Banks prefer to loan to individuals since "that's the way we always did it" - They focus on YOUR ability to pay the loan and can take 2-3 months to close on a property (or to decline the loan).  

As long as the investments cash flow positively now or close to it (especially in the case where you are living in it too), the returns will be even more impressive when rates decline. 

The government deficit is so high that the only way to pay off the debt is to stoke inflation, so that the government can pay off its debt with dollars worth less, in purchasing power, than the dollars the government borrowed.All said, regardless of short term variations I believe the major trend will be higher price tags for property and rents, and a declining ratio of debt to value over time for whatever properties you hold.My plan is to take the long view, keep looking for good investments in good areas, and sell properties in areas that legislate or regulate in a manner that tells you they don't value what you bring to the market.Good hunting.

When property managers’ performance declined, we replaced them.

O&G demand will, I think, in fact go up for the next 10 or 20 years as it is needed to build out the renewables infrastructure (ironically, enthusiastically digging its own grave, as it were), but its decline is inevitable.

Much of the talk about declining this and that (or woke whatever) is directly put out as political talking points.  

You don't want to buy in a declining market. 

I fact, I would have bought a triplex recently but I have a door problem right now and I painfully had to decline making an offer.