If you are simply investing for sport and keeping your W2 job indefinitely, you've got plenty of time to acquire SFR and MF assets.

A 1031 exchange allows you to defer indefinitely the tax on the gain. 

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

I was hoping to get more input after preparing these numbers but I suppose people are more interested in the threads about the when the next real estate crash will be, or the latest real estate scam :)I'm by no means a tax expert - but I always had the understanding that through the use of depreciation and 1031 exchanges one could defer taxes almost indefinitely. 

As I said, there's no limit to how many 1031s you can execute, so you can potentially (and many people actually do this) continue to leapfrog from one property to the next (after holding for a sufficient period, usually 12-18 months) without paying taxes, indefinitely.

If push comes to shove, he can sell the house and still walk away with cash in hand (technically, he'd be taking a loss, but in some cases, that's better than the alternative).Of course, if these are rental properties and the cash flow covers operating expenses and debt service (the aforementioned fundamentals), then technically neither person has a problem - they can just hold the properties indefinitely, or at least until the market rebounds. 

To those people, I say Karma will get you back.For the other replies:This is something that is sweeping the nation and is backing off lenders indefinitely.

I suppose you might find someone who's willing to do this deal and wait indefinitely to get their $25K.

These leases have been built around the theory that inflation was going to hover at a 2% indefinitely. 

With the swift trend of companies letting individuals work from home indefinitely, it is going to change the bay area landscape.