Precious metals behave the same way—prices rise and fall based on sentiment, not reality.Rental income is different.

In many areas, I think it must have more to do with anti landlord sentiment than it does with tenants' actual ability to pay.

Quote from @Bruce Neiman: I appreciate the overall sentiment and blueprint but this reads like AI slurry."

We are in pivotal times where performance, planning, projections, accountability, results and networking weigh more heavily.Performance means a lot more than what it meant 2 years ago when everything was easy - in reference to high favor for sellers.The feds objective of decreasing buyer sentiment settled itself in a little over a year ago and 2025 was filled with broken promises to dropped that sentiment even lower.We are at a point where 2026 will be a very telling year.No time for lackluster evaluations and/or performances.

Go send $700k in bitcoin, it's seamless.Adoption is going to be key, but for that to happen regulation and consumer sentiment must come back.

Market sentiment turned risk-off, with a “short America” tone emerging as investors rotated out of equities into gold and crypto.

All of this is simply the ongoing debate of the day in USA which is a Marxist Communist sentiment vs a Libertarian Democratic one. 

I did not go to the best ever conference, but I heard from people who went the sentiment there was the same.

But for that to happen, public sentiment would need to swing hard in the other direction, because the recent trend is clearly moving toward more rent caps, not fewer. 

Liquidity conditions are improving, risk premiums are tightening, and sentiment is constructive for rate-sensitive assets.This marks a significant policy shift signaling a more aggressive housing stance.