I knew that they would need to seriously lower the standards for these housing prices in San Diego, where I live to continue to artificially rise for a year or two.

Unless you want to artificially increase the rent and then give them a discount, but I agree with Joe-they signed a document saying they'd pay the rent on time and they should do so.

Which is why I look at price per door in a given submarket, I'd rather buy a "low CAP" under the average PPD than a high CAP at a higher PPD in that same submarket because the low cap scares off buyers and there is normally something going on that causes the CAP to be artificially low.

So then demand is artificially inflated. 6) "Missing half of living expenses"?

And so it is artificially inflating the NOI and making the cap rates look higher.

Retirement is for people that hate their jobs and have this artificial date 30 years from now that they can leave the job they hate. 

ReAlpha may be able to analyze lots of deals in the MLS'a via Artificial Intelligence, but when it comes to actually getting sellers to agree to your AI's price, you basically have an 'iBuyer' type situation, and this market just isn't supporting iBuyers.  

The higher bids take me into negative cash flow scenarios :/ Then taget cheaper properties and put a larger down payment.The fact is everyone always views some constraint that theyve artificially put in front of them.

Although right now it seems like things are fairly stable and I believe that our government is artificially propping up this economy.

This is why they are keeping rates artificially low even in the face of INFLATION.