Buy and hold has proven to be diminishing returns for me over time especially over the last five years of no appreciation.

It may help to explain why I am extremely concerned by the diminishing concern for debt - personal and by governments, the growing entitlement attitude, and the spending by our government employees.I will put my soapbox away now.

I didn't read the whole thing, but there is definitely a diminishing value to college degrees now.

We are only now feeling what most of the country has felt, but in a very diminished way.

There is the concept of diminishing returns.

I will order a diminished value report, which will basically tell us the value of the 11 feet and FATICO will compensate you for the loss of that 11 feet.

When the data is loaded into the system, the system spits out an eligible level the most commonly know are DU responses which are Approved Eligible (EA), and EA 1 and EA 2, where the 1 and 2 are diminishing levels of qualifying.

Assets under $150K banks tend to discount more, and if you go for assets below $75K they start to discount even further due to the diminishing quality of the collateral.

There's a law of diminishing returns to how much risk is eliminated as you increase the reserves.

This can be true; but, I've seen the value both rise and diminish, depending on the scale of the proposed project.If you decide to sell, keep in mind that the inquiring agent will undoubtedly expect you to pay the commissions, thus affecting your overall cash to find a larger abode.As an added note: My daughters survived a small house; and, the wife and I are quite comfortable now and don't need to "downsize."