my favorite real estate guest barnard is jason hartman whose podcast i listen to regularly and he's going to try and break this down for us you know it's funny because i was listening to you the other day and here's what i want you to start with you were talking the other day as i was taking my kids out they were mad because i forced them to listen to you. know what it is that is actually causing the lack of inventory and you were explaining that it was like a hedge fun kind of thing these big giant bags for groups that are coming in and buying them all it's not just people can you start there. you know rick that's a good point people are finding that a lot of times now they're in it you know multiple offer situation when they're trying to buy a house and they are usually competing against many other buyers traditional buyers in the market investors in the market but what they're mostly competing against nowadays that is frustrating them are overfunded. corporations giant companies big hedge funds some of them foreign and this is really frustrating to homebuyers because the american dream

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