If your expenses really are running 50% (or, you're tired of being a landlord) you can sell it, and invest the proceeds in CDs at 5% and get $2,884/month.The fallacy here is in trying to predict what the next 30 years are going to be like.

Even if they are "qualified"... eh I can't predict the future, if any one can... please give me a call, i'd like to discuss future investments =P jk jk jk.

Hey, oil looks safe.To go back to Crystal's original question, I think the answer is very hard to predict.

I don't think anyone can accurately predict, at the moment.

My prediction - Lakers v.

There is nothing wrong with assuming that higher risk, but it is silly to pretend that it doesn't exist or is an equivalent risk to more predictable strategies.Mike

The reason is that it is IMPOSSIBLE to predict exactly which expenses will occur for a given property in a given year.

However, right now they are not rising "eventually" as with his prediction for rents, expenses are rapidly rising right now and runaway inflation is a real possibility.

You're asking for predictions, and those are difficult.

Anyone with a good knowledge of History (especially Cultural Anthropology) will be able to predict future patterns of human behavior based upon past human behavior.