I was looking at a hotel pool property at Ala Moana, but after looking at the numbers, the nominal cash flow wouldn't be worth the potential risk. 

Corporate officers who perform no services or only nominal services in their capacity as an officer and neither receive nor have claim to any compensation (direct or indirect) are not statutory employees.You might not be considered an employee just because you are a corporate officer. 

A nominal fee for all the maintenance upgrades throughout the property.

Reason: I understand a nominal flat type of fee, it's a pain in the *** to put together a syndication.

I would at least increase the rent a nominal amount ($25 - $50) to help defray the costs of maintenance.

Anyway it's the "real" appreciation, meaning nominal minus inflation, that matters. 

I didn't read all of the replies, but the real rate of return is easy to calculate:https://www.carboncollective.c....Real return = ((1 + nominal rate) / (1 + inflation rate)) - 1This is NOT the same as simple math that most people use; especially when there are compounding effects over time that are exacerbated with high portions of your real purchasing power being inflated out of existence with drunken-sailor-like fiscal policy.  

Bad decisions are bad decisions, regardless of how they're arrived at, even if by faithfully adhering to a flawed ideology.As to why McCain was nominated, I don't think it's a coincidence that the GOP nominated a moderate, as 8 years of conservative rule has effectively discredited the ideology for the time being.

In order to find real rate of return we take 1+r = [1 + Nominal rate (N)] / [(1 + i)]so we get 1+r = 1.0632/1.0466 = 1.0159 -1 = 1.59% return for appreciation per year.Now lets look at principle pay dow.

You'll have to pay the nominal $199 application fee with lendinghome, but I've found their points, interest rate and doc requirements to be superior to most HMLs.