Once the housing market gradually went back up, i sold it for 140k.

The original plan of flipping this place years ago was lost along time ago after they sucked my time life and energy gradually to the point where I'm literally so sick I can't even barely walk anymore.

It's about how to create that position given where the general market is and protecting that position.So your exit game (assumption here is that exit means a gradual move from active to passive and higher risk/reward to lower risk higher security) will depend on where you are and where the market is when you want to say enough is enough.  

I also think that's depended on businesses at least staying open and gradually loosening restrictions.  

I have to get out of them gradually because of capital gains taxes.  

Over the past year or so I have watched it gradually rise in purchase price.

Gradually loosening lending standards over the past few years have introduced a modicum of risk back into the housing market, and that additional risk is resulting in rising foreclosure starts in a diverse set of markets across the country," Blomquist says.

It gradually rose throughout the 1990s, exceeding 1 million in 1998.

Assuming that the insurance company doesn't find a reason to deny a claim of course.Ask your insurance company if they have such an endorsement, and what it actually covers, and under what sorts of circumstances a claim will be honored and what sorts of circumstances would lead to a denial of a claim.Here's a thread where having that coverage still would not have resulted in a claim being paid:http://www.biggerpockets.com/forums/24/topics/1201...It may or may not.I think it depends on the type of events that occured, whether it's "sudden" or "gradual" or whatever...needs to see the fine print.I remember one neighbor had to break the concrete slab to get below to fix a leaking pipe. 

@Jonathan Paul ShorttI’m currently looking at a 1bd 1 Ba sleeps 2, but when I received the rental income I noticed they went from $150 a night in early 19 gradually down to $115 a night now.