Our home prices soared over the past 5 years and rents have only gone up incrementally creating an imbalance.

This imbalance intensifies buyer competition, driving up home prices as demand outstrips supply.2.

This continued imbalance in housing supply to household formations and population growth.Changing Demographics and PreferencesPeople are also waiting longer to start families (Source), and people are valuing more the flexibility that renting provides in the remote work and online business era as well as the sense of community apartment complexes can provide in our digital and post-pandemic world where people feel less connected to the community than before (Source).

To create rental income that enables financial freedom, you need a location that meets specific criteria.Rents increase faster than inflation: Prices and rents are driven by the imbalance between demand and supply.

A supply and demand imbalance drives rents and prices higher.

Entire US industries have been decimated due to an exploitative trade imbalance.

Like any market, when there's a supply:demand imbalance the supply then oversaturates it and this is what you get.

But when I google "why are housing prices still rising in LA despite population declining", all of the answers start by explaining the imbalance of supply and demand.

“I do not agree that appreciation is a function of chance.Appreciation is driven by the imbalance of demand and supply.

Nine  states are COMMUNITY PROPERTY STATES, where all property accumulated during the marriage, OR the INCREASE in value of existing separate property (property accumulated prior to the marriage), is considered community property which can only be divided 50/50, UNLESS the division is made to offset some other imbalance .