Subbu, The quantity of commercial multifamily listed on the MLS will be very small.

Increasing job quality and quantity - You need new employers setting up operations.Investor friendly - Check for rent control (os similar restrictions) and the actual cost and time to evict.Property cost - There is a tendency for new investors to choose locations with very inexpensive properties.

According to the quantity theory of money, if you increase the supply of money in an economy, the price level of all goods and services increase (i.e. inflation).

Demand is not constant.Elastic demand is one in which the change in quantity demanded due to a change in price is large.That happened during the recession, as the price is too expensive, people prefer to save money and not buy mortgage because the mortgage is more than rent right now, so the demand could pretty much collapse during mortgage hikes.

I go for quality over quantity.

Too many think that "quantity", because of the volume, will generate those leads simply because there are so many...there has to be at least one "needle" in that stack of plenty. 

Just from a marital harmony issue?

I agree inflation is for sure having an effect but the sheer quantity of demand and lack of housing in the area is really what I think is driving it. 

I found one of the most respected traders for that market and signed a deal to buy some small quantity from him (I didn't make much money on that trade :) ).

Harmony... just why are you putting a timeline of 2020 on the end of this question?