Once upon a time in America's history, real estate was the number-one investment opportunity for people looking to earn a good living. This doesn't necessarily have anything to do with that popular trend of purchasing and flipping homes; this has a lot more to do with buying large properties and renting out apartments and town homes. This is how Donald Trump made the bulk of his money many years ago. It's how cities like New York and Chicago came to be such prominent cities. If there were only homes there to buy, they would be the suburbs. With so many apartments available to rent, they became urban metro centers; true cities. Many people want to know if the rental market is still alive today.

Well, there are a few places in America where people are still purchasing properties in order to become landlords and rent them out. However, these places are very few and far between. In some towns in Texas, Missouri, and other rural areas of rural states, you can find rentals all over the place. Everywhere else, however, and all the properties are being purchased by governments and organizations that can afford to pay a highly inflated rate for these properties. It's so bad, in fact, that many people argue that these entities are purchasing up this property just to keep it out of the hands of Americans.

In other words, the rental market is slowly dying in America. It's such a cornerstone of the American real estate market, yet all the properties are going either to the Chinese government or huge corporations like BlackRock and Vanguard. The idea of the "little man" purchasing rental properties is a distant dream from a bygone era in America.
 

America No Longer Belongs to Americans

Speaking about America's current allegiance to corporations and the "almighty dollar" is a very polarizing topic that brings up a whole lot of anger and far too few solutions. For instance, every single time someone wants to hold a meaningful discussion on the state of corporatism and potentially corrupt politicians in America harming the average American, two groups come out to hijack the conversation. The first group is socialists, who just shout that this is an obvious result of capitalism and therefore the entire system needs to collapse. Whether that has any truth to it or not, the fact is that these people stop the conversation about the issue at hand. The second group is social justice activists, who come out screaming that the "White man stole America from the Natives." Again, whether that has any validity isn't the point. The fact is that it shuts down the conversation at hand.

So, essentially, it's impossible for Americans to have a thoughtful dialogue on the fact that the Chinese government and multinational billion-dollar corporations are buying up every square inch of real estate in America, and the regular person cannot compete with this. Every single time that conversation is brought up, the activists groups crawl out form behind some rock and shut it down. Many believe that these socialist and social justice groups are really fake agitator groups funded by the government and huge corporations in order to stop that conversation. There's even a whole lot of financial paperwork to support that theory, but zero mainstream news organizations willing to investigate.

The point here is that regular people wanting to purchase real estate in America have been entirely priced out of the market, and this subject cannot be openly discussed without being shut down. This means that the idea of purchasing rental properties for an investment is something that's currently unobtainable for the average American. It's something that the huge corporations and foreign governments are doing every single day in America. By the time you've read this, the Chinese government will own another dozen homes and a hundred acres of American land. Unfortunately, in that same time frame, another dozen Americans will have lost their home or their land. The situation is really dire, and Americans cannot even speak openly about it, much less do anything to stop it.

So, if you've been thinking about rental properties as some sort of investment opportunity, the fact is that you're likely priced out of the market unless you have a whole lot of money or can get lucky to find a property to fix up. Other than that, America is not a country beneficial to the average American anymore.