It was then I realized that these 197 “buyers” would NEVER buy any property, and decided to identify REAL buyers (or sellers) early and work ONLY with buyers, sellers and deals that COULD be successfully concluded. 

Depending on what you are researching, it can take up to half an hour to complete the research.

On a positive - local and often small municipalities have done an excellent job (in my opinion) of fairly regulating most regions to prevent over saturation and clear processes to permit issuance and operations. - Low inventory to remain so.

In those instances they were out of the country and ocean front.

I have a site that has a room rental estimator, so check that out: https://CoLivingPro.ioAlso, you can comp rents on Roomies.com (a popular room listing site) and Zillow.

I just closed three ground-up construction loans in the Jasper area last week backing up to Big Canoe.

Not to that drastic extent but SWFLA coral and lehigh are seeing some major wipe outs on new builds and half built new builds.I lost all my credit lines  25 million worth of 1 year revolvers that us HML use to fund loans for all you investors out there..

Loan Buy DownSo you may not be getting cash flow, but you are still getting the other three.

But recently, rates have started to level out and have settled into a more narrow range (see graph below):As the graph shows, rates have stayed within that half-percentage-point since late last year.

But I will start here: tariffs have brought in $300 billion, up from ~$80 billion a year ago (annualized, Treasury).And since then, the inflation rate has decreased to 2.3% (the Fed’s preferred measure PCE, BLS).For me, the discussion on tariffs comes down to these three features of tariffs.