I welcome and encourage anyone on the forum to chime in if I may have misrepresented anything, but this has been my mental model after spending countless hours running through different scenarios.I dont have a heloc personally but just curious are they all fixed rate / or are some of them variable when rates rise the interest rate rises or when rates fall the interest rates fall.   

Over time, as rents rise the property could become even more profitable.

It's much higher than it was a few years ago and is continuing to rise. 

I did not see a forecast for rising rates in Q4?

My husband and I were very lucky, as price in our city were beginning to rise.

He believes that area where he will be buying the new homes is going to appreciate and attract more MTRenters, but now, the big difference is that he would now have 3 properties that can go up (or potentially down) in value, go up (or down) in rent, and three times as many vacancies to fill.My back of the napkin assessment is that for only a drop in $200 a month in cash flow, he would control a lot more assets with growth potential and as rents rise over the coming years, the combined rents will increase to a total more than the single rent.HOWEVER.

Rising values of the properties bailed us out of a potentially disappointing investment.  

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I haven’t seen any longer term studies done, only promotional info when the RE market was generally rising.  

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