Buy vs Rent a Home? The tide is turning in the housing market for 2024. As mortgage rates drop, millions of homebuyers are eagerly awaiting a chance to buy a home at lower rates. And if mortgage rates fall to 6%, that is not a high rate historically. The question then is what will home…

Will Rent Prices Fall in 2024? Renters continue to ask about when apartment and house rent prices will fall. According to >Redfin's most recent news release, asking rents are beginning to go down faster.  November's numbers are down 2.1% year over year. Is this the leading edge of more vacancies and lower rent revenues for…

Housing Market Going through a Reset? In 2007 to 2009, the housing market went through a great property price reset. Companies could not hold up and a housing market crash ensued. It was the era of sub-prime lending, where major companies were caught off guard by a collapsing banking system. Today, that situation doesn't exist.…

How to Find Great Tenants! Great tenants are the holy grail of property management and successful rental property investment. And finding them and attracting them strategically could be the key to charging profitable rent prices and seeing consistent revenues from a long-term leased tenant base. The 5 questions to ask involve who, which, where, how,…

Cost of Living, City by City So many Americans are alarmed by the persistence in the cost of living today.  As inflation rises, rent prices rise, and discretionary income declines for those in lower salary ranges, cost is pressuring everyone. The questions they ask vary from where can I buy a house for less than…