Things are getting out of control, which is really the plan overall anyway.
We have not seen the end of the inflation mess by a long shot. We have a personal home, certainly modest, two vehicles of 2017 Vintage a Ram and an Outback, and 2 paid for rental properties. When you saw building materials skyrocket and then the scramble was on to pay employees more which means raising prices. In our little town of 50K they are giving bigger than normal raises to city and county workers due to inflationary costs. UPS settled their strike and the drivers got a huge pay increase and now they laid of like 85,000 workers, GM laid workers off as well. All of this is to say, no one wants to get left out in the cold in wages and wants a big raise. Where does that money come from? It has to come from you and I.
The fact is we are not even close to seeing the inflation getting under control. It is a contrived proposition. The feds want it down to around 2% overall. Good luck with that. No one now cares about 2% inflation, they just want a big raise so they can get more money. I marvel that we all seem to have forgotten that everything averaged was 12% higher a few years ago so the 3% now is just on top of the 12%. It is compounding daily on all of us.
Cars will now cost more as they settled the UAW strike, manufacturers already said prices will have to go up. As I said, you city, state and county workers want raises to feed their families as well. When my wife and I meet with Insurance agents each year to go over our insurance, it is joke. The insurance companies price replacement costs based on inflated materials certainly but also IF there is a major catastrophe like a tornado then labor prices will go through the roof so they price that into your policy.
As a landlord we have two main costs - insurance and taxes with some maintenance but our homes are very well taken care of. Then people have nerve to blame landlords for being "greedy" on rent prices. No wonder when you look at all of it.
I just read today in a financial article that many small banks are about to go under and the feds are OK with that. You better know your bank and where their money is invested because it is going to get rough. They (feds) want fiscal consolidation and here it comes. None of this happens by accident.