The 4 in 4 and 8 in 8 which was just really 4 more 4 in 4s is just a way to produce predictability.  

LOL.. nothing can be farther from the truth of course. but that does not sell pod casts and stock the I have a dream button.

There's a lot of stock of 10-25 year old detached tri-levels in places like Roy in that size.  

I'm fairly young, 30, so my investment allocation was 85/15 stocks to bonds.

Now these are the options lets paint a little picture... when it comes to market investing, holding for a long time no matter the risk/reward of the stock, usually equalizes the return because over a longer holding period the ROE usually ends up in the positive.

Not stock market, not economic market.  

RE is always different from Stocks/shares, I learned too much while reading things here, that I choose not to question IRS rules and simply follow my tax advisor.

Even if the market tanks, which I don't profess to have the expertise to predict, I think you should be fine so long as the rental income you collect can help you weather the storm through the recovery period.

BTW I too trade stocks!

If property appreciates, then that is the icing on the cake.Cash Flow is nice, but if you are really about returns, whether they're rental income or market appreciation, you need both cash flow and appreciation.A savvy investor sees opportunities for forced appreciation, a growing/recovering market (market appreciation), and cash flow.If CF=dividend, and Market appreciation=stock price...wouldn't you want both?