The internet and mobile phone technology have empowered amazing things.

So for a market to have "significant growth" it's gotta either be (a) significantly UNDER priced at this time, lagging the overall market or (b) hold some unique attributes that will empower it to significantly out-perform and out-pace the national and regional economic performance. 

The lease option / rent to own confuses the owner as to who is actually in charge.The tenant also gets confused since they are partially empowered as a homeowner...pepto-pink wall paint appeal to the daughter, why not!

When buyers see a lot of inventory and many months on market, it empowers them to negotiate more, this lowers prices, which in turn lowers comps, which prompts more sellers to sell out of concern, discourages buyer to make that "investment", causing more inventory and encourages the remaining buyers to offer "ahead of" where the market is going, which is anticipated even lower...I have always said, once the first row of houses is washed into the ocean, watch how quickly the for sale signs pop up in the second row.

So not only do we have this opportunity, we have the opportunity all-but protected from those empowered to most impact this dynamic.  

But now, today, we have noobs galore taking a snippet of info and assuming an entire narrative from it, empowered by novice agents galore with experience measured in weeks or months.

Empowering housing access and affordability initiatives via housing development and redevelopment in both conveyance for end users in rental and targeted home ownership classifications of under meet and at-risk segment's. 

How many more deals could you now do, or parts of deals that you now benefit from that you wouldn't have before you helped develope an investor. 50% of any deal is better than 100% of a deal you never knew existed.So I encourage you, empower you, and I CHALLENGE YOU, for myself and many other real "starving" investors out there, to take the Mentor Challenge, Mentor 1 new real investor this year.

This journey so far has been simultaneously trying, exciting, and empowering.

We just need to get them some confidence and mentoring to get their questions answered and be empowered.