The Vanishing Rung: Why Small-Scale Investors Are the Last Hope for Starter Rentals
In the landscape of modern American real estate, the "starter home" has become a relic of a bygone era. However, a quieter, more systemic crisis is unfolding in the rental market: the disappearance of the "starter rental." As gleaming, amenity-heavy luxury apartment complexes dominate urban skylines, the modest one-to-three-bedroom ranch, the affordable studio apartment, and…