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In the last 5 years those are gone, ALL medical practices are now part of major group practices.  

These places were very depressed back then and now are much more attractive for buyers and tenants alike.

Long term, if you’re interested in STRs or mid-term rentals out of state, I’d definitely keep Columbus, Ohio on your radar because the fundamentals are really strong with population growth, job growth, and a lot of major companies like Intel, Amazon, Google, Honda, and Microsoft expanding here.

It is a relatively depressed city with little economic development but has great cash flow.

They don't want to let go of the depression.

The deals usually used exotic structures / financial engineering to make expensively purchased real-estate pencil out with attractive projected returns (which also greatly increases risk of major loss). 

It's a frozen market.We are in great depression level affordability for housing, many people were waiting to see how the Fed would operate on rates then the market on the long-end of rates.

Assume NOI is depressed because of vacancies + incentives, hard to tell if this is temporary or if it will bust

It is depressing values.