These figures are put out by Realtors and builders usually to form public opinion and generate business, if prices fall, it's time to buy, if prices are going up, it's time to buy now.Marketing public opinion and attitudes I'd say and totally useless in reality to a RE investor dealing in a local market.

Maybe you immediately generate a vacancy if you do.

The buy and hold investor will be interested in how much income the property will generate and how much of a discount he is getting off market price.

Its a great opportunity for someone to turn this into a duplex and generate cash flow.

My lender lumps all my debt together, including rental property, and then performs a DTI using 80% (I recall) of the revenue generated from my rental income and inculudes that as regular income.

Starting off by with chatting with her friends, Cheryl then tried to explore her untrodden world of chat, that is chatting with random people and stuff.

If you're old enough like my generation, we remember exactly where we were when President Kennedy was slain.

Same for deposit; you can't just randomly raise that because of more people.

A lot of these families also work and they have lots of cash because they dont trust banks, so the income is there you just have to learn to get it from them. also, If you think of the labor force that the lower income areas generate you can get lots of help because in my experience they usually work as construction workers or more menial jobs that are essential to some real estate investors.

It still needs some additional work, but it is rented out now and generating some income.