This is Carines Approach, indefinite ceiling, sky obscured, visibility zero, fog, (WXOF), Altimeter twoninner niner two, wind, calm, cleared for ILS approach runway one eight, report the outer marker!

If he stays and pays indefinitely, you've just saved yourself some rehab money and effort!

Other obstacles involved in lending to carmakers might be finding large pools of collateral for the Fed to loan against.

If your groundwater is higher then the slab elevation, you are going to battle this indefinitely until it is installed right.

With a 1031 you get to defer indefinitely the payment of that tax.  

Pay the taxes on gain, depreciation, and ACA but have free cash after (and no more depreciation write off)2. 1031 and indefinitely defer those taxes (and keep depreciation benefit) but pay a higher price to buy a replacement locally.That sounds like date night with a glass of wine and an excel work book to figure out where you come down personally. 

You have to assume an indefinite hold time to use the real estate as a hedge.

This is especially true of properties that we plan to refinance and return investor principal (vs. an outright  sale) as under that scenario the investors would no longer have equity at risk and could hold the cash flowing property indefinitely - which is my favorite type of retirement investment (playing with house money). 

With my first investment, I wanted to know if everything went wrong and I had no tenants indefinitely that I could cover the cost of the property from my job.

@Ryan S.I negotiated a 100k+ credit for deferred maintenance and the bank is holding it indefinitely in an interest bearing account.