Equity also is usually a percent of the net income, which means increases in net income create increases in proportion to the investment.

At the end of the year, you can then allocate interest proportionally to the amount of debt on each property or flip project, etc.

But of course when one goes on a run, or one dives it throws that proportion out of alignment.

No matter how much money is actually printed, the proportions don't change unless naturally.

If he had, he would have to be a fool of biblical proportions to tell you how little he paid in heat.Sounds like you feel your landlord is being shifty.

These schemes are called Proportional Property Ownership.

This is not uniformly true- during some crises, some real estate investors are forced to sell, and that will generally hurt their returns, but the proportion of panicked sellers is likely larger in the stock market than in the real estate market during panics.So it seems to me that the stock market brings out the worst in us(by "us," I mean the average "us," not you whizzes out there who are beating the market, so pipe down in the peanut gallery) and real estate brings out the best in us- the less liquid nature of real estate, verse stocks, might be one of real estate's greatest assets to the average investor.Then there's the question of measurement itself.

The bushes in front of the windows come up too high, although neatly trimmed, the proportion still reads "overgrown".

That is not just too much, its way beyond proportion.  

I realize you stated it was a "porch" (not likely high above ground) but when terms like "defective" and "deck joist" get tossed around things can get blown out of proportion quickly in court.There are many sides to this issue.