There has been a ton of new construction for housing the past 4 years and that’s why vacancy rates are 10-12% and rental rates have dropped the past couple of years. 

Quote from @David Sam: Hi, I bought my first investment property ( new construction  SFM) few months back.

I have always been interested in home construction techniques that are different or older.Container homes, these sorts of shot-crete homes, bale homes etc.The biggest issue is not that fact that they will rent, for if they are in the right location, of course they will rent just fine.

Extremely helpful and constructive post. 

I'll take any and all advice any of you have, but the two things I'm looking for specifically are: what sites, services, and/or software you use and recommend for sceening and managing tenants? 

The Suburban markets with New construction offering decent builder buy-down rates 5s %, and selling completed inventory homes to investors is an opportunity we’re pointing investors to, as well as Duplexes outside the city, that’s where we’re finding some of the best options to get closest to positive cashflow with 20/25% down.

However, the people who use rules of thumb don't have sophisticated software that can analyze deeply thousands of potential deals every day!

The biggest things you can offer in development are finding a deal, finding capital, or construction expertise. 

Our state is currently pushing the construction of ADUs, perhaps the easiest and cheapest way to add additional housing.

There are some major developments continuing construction, however; the price points are upwards at $290,000 or higher and rent rates being advertised at $2,000 a month.