Everyone keeps worrying about inflation, but with the banks not loaning money there is no velocity to cause a spike and a subsequent rate hike.In a lot of markets buildings are going for less than replacement cost.

The current system is very sinister because it encourages the government to balance budgets with hidden taxes like the inflation tax or the tax on the inflation tax.

And we haven't even discussed inflation.

Why spend years of your life going to get a PhD when you can get a medical degree and join a cartel that inflates wages in the same amount of time?

Charlie, et al are just pointing out what each believe give their asset of choice - Real Estate - a better than average chance of rising prices.Of course, who else thinks of those factors ... and thought of them first?

Guessing, which is what you would do, and it will result in an inflated price and as Bryan pointed out, if it does not appraise out, the buyer is then put in a position to come up with more funds, which will be unexpected for 99% of such buyers and your deal will fall through.

If you can buy a property (usually a condo) for 30-50k and have a line of people with a 600-620 credit score and a good job lined up to hand you 2000 dollars and pay 900/mth with a rent to own contract, wouldn't you do it as much as possible if you knew how to get them approved. there is a billion dollar business that will rise up in the next few years from someone doing this for 10,000's of homes they buy right from b of a and the others.

Some just watched it rise and fall.

That might be a major infill requirement.If you are the landlord/owner and you have a good location for a beauty shop, that can be a very good tenant, due to the infill requirements, they don't move like an insurance office might.On a long term lease be sure to build in an index to tie rents to, inflation, cost of fed funds, etc.

Neighborhoods rise and fall in "class", and investing in areas that are gentrifying is a great idea IMO.