There are additional restrictions on how much the rents can rise each year and it is based on the county's median income.When valuing a property in the program, it cannot be compared to market rate deals, it's income stream has to be valued assuming the restricted rental rates.Tax credit deals usually cost more to build than they are worth because of the rents.

And i see a huge rise of married couples with kids moving out towards the suburbs, they want big houses for cheaper price.

From what I can see decent quality single family homes do not perform as well as the purchase price of the unit rises more rapidly than does the rentable value, thus depressing gross rental yield and reducing benefits for the investor.

Plus the tech giants continue to build - with Apple building an additional research and development building on the grounds of the former HP gap headquarters - to bring in 12,000 new employees - rents and values continue to rise.

In the Midwest we have seasonal variation in temperature that was apparently causing some movement. 

The colleges add to that in different areas, but demand and price tend to rise and fall somewhat independent of the universities.The exception are the universities near the med center, including Rice and all of the graduate schools.

The temperatures have been down in the 10-15 range, and has recently gotten up to around 40 or so.Those poor tenants! 

The competition that it creates is undeniable and it allows super motivated people to rise to the top.We recruited real estate agents (97% of which do not make money) to come rent houses for us and several earned 6 figure incomes because they worked their butts off.We used to let the top producing rental agent put their sign closest to the street to get the calls first.  

Prices will rise more slowly2.

But in the instance of utility bills rising, and you have no choice but to raise the rents due to this fact, and  are giving your tenants a choice of a rent increase or not, they will most likely choose not!