Either way you both avoid taxes - pretty good deal.Buying the property for an artificially low amount to avoid taxes would be considered tax evasion and is illegal.

I am co-founder of a startup developing Artificial intelligence based monitoring tech to constantly watch out for any issues either with tenants or maintenance issues.  

I don't necessarily have the expertise to know which semiconductor, artificial intelligence, marijuana, or blockchain company is going to be the next big winner; however I do know that regardless of how one company does, these industries are on the rise, therefore I invest in ETFs that follow the index of these industries I just mentioned.

There's pretty much no way around it -- after keeping interest rates artificially low for so long, all assets are now incorrectly priced, and everything breaks down when interest rates rise.

What would you do if eminent domain was exercised on your property at today's artificially devalued pricing, funded by the money printing machine?

Again, I like real estate fine now with the artificial stock prices caused by low interest rates, but let's just be honest about the return.

Novice investors attribute zero value to cash to artificially increase the perception of their returns on a property.

Don't forget that you are artificially putting alot of pressure by having a 12 year loan.If you relative doesn't cost you anything, even if this house cost you a few hundred now and than, it is better than paying ALL the expense.

Speculators who are buying futures contracts as hedges against inflation have no intention of ever receiving the oil, and artificially remove it from the marketplace for the term of the contract, which results in the appearance of a shortage of crude available to refiners.

The other possibility is that the original owner may have had some political connections that kept prices artificially low until your purchase triggered an "oh crud Bob isn't there anymore panic".