Note from the seller - current gross is 136,800 June will be 137,700 with predicted 150,000 next year. 

@Nathan Carter We can definitely work with that to provide her with predictable expenditures monthly.

I personally believe that there is no way to predict the future and the only way to hedge risk is diversify enough.

It also helps if you know how to code instead of just using excel, it saves you a lot of time if you can build models that can predict the cost by drawing live data from the internet.

Its hard to predict where mortgage rates will be in a couple of years.

I bet you $100 you’ll find 97% of climate change scientist predict the world population will be double at the turn of the century. 

@Mason Hickman I predict about $30,000 in the next 2 years

The market is pretty much impossible to predict, so as soon as you think you've found a great deal, even in this crazy market, you should pull the trigger.

Predicting the future is always fraught with risk, but I think most governmental agencies, investors and realtors think there are structural elements that will keep rent rising, albeit not at the rate we have seen the last year.

Also, it is quite difficult to predict which markets will outperform others in the future.