>Institutional investors that own 1,000 or more homes account for only about 2.2% of all investor-owned homes, the firm said.

>And that number could get smaller, amid signs that large institutional investors are scaling back home purchases.

>Out of a group of eight of the biggest companies that own and lease single-family houses, including Invitation Homes and American Homes 4 Rent, six sold more homes in the second quarter than they bought, according to data from Parcl Labs.
Source: The article that none of you fucking losers even bothered to read. Meanwhile in reality I've got a friend who does building trades in WV that just bought an "investment" property this year. Paid 30 grand for an abandoned house that had all the copper pipes and cable ripped out by junkies who were squatting there. He'll fix it up on his days off over the next year or so and sell it for probably 60-80K profit.
Apart from being stupid, lazy, and jobless, what is really holding any of you losers back from buying up a neglected house on the cheap and fixing it up for yourselves?