I suspect Amazon, Microsoft, and the other tech giants' push for return-to-office is going to drive more high-income activity into the rental market again.

I'm talking about dividend paying stocks such as Google, Apple or Microsoft.

We've seen Microsoft announce a new campus here at Atlantic Station, more people are relocating from the north which has allowed Atlanta to continue but that growth has included the surrounding areas of Atlanta.

Washington state across the river is reaping the benefits of an Amazon and Microsoft HQ, driving housing cost really high. 

Take Microsoft - I own a non-trivial number of shares.  

Do people contact the SEC when Microsoft stock goes down?

And when I was getting advice from him and suggested that maybe putting all the money in Microsoft and google was a better idea, he looked at me like it was the dumbest idea ever.

With that said you probably have less head ache buying google, Microsoft and other tech giants. they consistently have return on equity in the 15-20%

Bill Gates dropped out of college and founded Microsoft.

The big firms there (Boeing, Microsoft, Amazon, Facebook etc) raised $500M to try to start to tackle the problem since they partly created it (skyrocketing of house prices and rent) but they have to deal with the red tape.