I am not sure if that is any different than normal.It appears to me that many families are doubling and tripling up.

Holding it you can only double or maybe triple your money (if you sell it when it's up).

About 18 months later the beach lot had tripled in price!

I have a triple A rated bridge to sell them!

The only criteria or rules that SHOULD be in place is that they double and triple check the borrow can afford the payments, that the purchase price is in line with or below the comps in the area and bingo, no infalting of prices would have existed.

Interesting.Trying to determine a cause for this crisis by looking at policies put into place during the Clinton/AG years completely misses the point, the Banks lent money to those who couldn't possible afford it, sold unregulated securities to people who didn't understand them rated triple A by the corrupt rating agencies, the SEC lifted the limits on leverage the financial institutions could use on the balance sheets and slept through their roles a system guardians, ALL of this occurring in the last 8 years under Republican leadership and allowing the financial community to almost destroy our economy, whilebeing touted by the past administration as years of positive growth, unbelievable!

The Rating agency would then send back a recommendation, the house made the changes, got a triple A rating and then payed the rating agency a fee.Lipstick on a Pig, everyone knew it, except the buyers who looked at AAA, but it caused a failure of the VAR models as it caused deviations far outside of the norm.

I'm basically thinking that the lease option would be better for me because I could roll the profits into 2-3 additional buy and hold rentals which would potentially triple my equity in 15 years.

I’m glad it’s like that though , I want  investors to stick to the b class suburban areas to make a 100$ a door hoping for appreciation . it allows little guys like me to cashflow double or triple what they get without a high entry price. 

A "triple net" lease, for example, shifts maintenance, taxes, and insurance to the lessee.