Guys coming up with the brilliant idea that investing in century-old C-class SFR in a place like Pgh is smart retirement savings diversification, damn the torpedoes, full steam ahead. 

In the early 20th century, families typically spent their time together on the first floor and rarely retired to their bedrooms for anything but sleep.

Once they claim it's an ESA, you have to give them the opportunity to apply for a reasonable accommodation.Welcome to Landlording in the 21st century.

There's no correlations between interest rates and real estate prices looking back almost a half of a century.

Respectfully to all here, I have escaped the 10 year market cycle and sold high, realized all kinds of cash flow on these condos (again I want to mention they had HOA fees I could not control) for much much higher cash flow, further deferring my taxes.I'm sure, the next phase will be refinancing or 1031 exchanging these Apartment complexes and following proven methods that true Multifamily owners have followed for decades and will now follow for centuries.  

As our Seattle ancestors learned a century ago (and Mark Twain observed), during a gold rush is a great time to be in the pick and shovel business.

Unless it's the deal of the century, nearly everything else you come across won't have it so there is no reason to even consider it. 

Don't forget, millions of immigrants from Europe in the 20th century to "Americanized" names because their European surnames were either long, hard to pronounce and even harder to spell.

The problem is Meridian, MS according to neighborhood scout is a negative appreciation market for this century (meaning the appreciation rate is less than the inflation rate).  

People coming from NYC think $300/night for a 3 br house is the deal of the century.