I always admired Barbara Coroican's investing approach; she was just so bold, always financed as much as possible and just had that confience that Manhatten would do well - I am sure it must have looked pretty bleak at some point.

When they print $ into existence that's inflationary, most get this.

We fixed it years ago, now every buyer sees a printed, side-by-side of all packages before deciding.

. - Tech Fees - Usually $3-$5/unit a month - Printing and Postage - Only as needed. 

The style of every article is very AI: no real commentary or detail on things, lots of large bold headers with a couple sentences below each. 

The more you talk to them and wait for money that will never come, the longer this will drag out and the more bold they will become. 

Thus it will both hold its value versus the U.S. currency which has to get deflated by either inflation or currency printing.  

Why do you think purchase contracts are so long and have such small print?

I think it will get better but it won't get back to pre COVID since we printed so much $

If OP is a first time homeowner, there are a lot of programs here to help first time buyers (read the fine print of conditions for these programs).- buy a home here, rent out the rooms (if you don't mind having roommates) or buy one with an ADU, rent out the ADU as a long term, MTR or STR (if there are no AirBnb restrictions).