Don't predict any appreciation.-- I don't believe my buying out the siblings raises the cost basis since, as I understand, the house stays in the same taxation position as the person who is "gifting" the duplex.

I've had to coordinate getting power lines moved, and it's never a quick, or predictable, process.

If you can predict any or all of these then you are a guru.

The floor that's still a construction site is about 1,000sqft (I predict 400,000 USD on that).

I think, long term goal planning in the REI game is hard to predict.

If you're in this for the long haul, you have to budget for that.I've had $300 service bills on a furnace that was only a few years old.Its impossible to predict when your tenant will bug out and leave you with a bunch of damage.

From the past 2 weeks, I predict that weeks 3 and 4 of this 3rd campaign will give me similar results in regard to response rate and potential successful deal rate.

That's if everything goes perfectly as predicted.

I say there is no predicting the future, learn what we can to analyze wisely when the time comes.

They thought it would be easy and it turned out not to be as easy as they predicted.