Something I didn't take into account when I made this post.
The rental moratorium just ended.
Now that people are being forced out of their homes, all of those rentals that sat off the market are now coming back at prices far cheaper than those investment properties that were bought since just before the pandemic started. Out here I'm starting to see 4 bed/2 bath rentals back at pre-pandemic pricing. Those houses that were bought with inflated valuation have mortgages that exceed the normal cost of renting a home out here, so the owners are stuck with houses they won't be able to rent as a glut of more affordable homes come back on the market. These new property owners are either going to have to wait for a sucker, eat part of the mortgage themselves in order to price it according to the real market, or dump the property all together.
My money is on dumping.
So these clowns are going to start selling, eventually just to get rid of it, they'll sell at a loss. This will drive prices down and eventually the market will be in a free fall just like it was back in '07-'08.
This is the start of the ending.