Obviously this is a very high level example meant for illustrative purposes only. 

I was just trying to illustrate the long term returns of gold vs. stocks vs. bonds.

Online rankings are largely vacuous, as illustrated by the Goat Lawyer who had perfect 10s on some unnamed attorney ranking websites.

Obviously that's an extreme case but just an example to illustrate my concern.

To illustrate this point I put together a simple model comparing five-year investable cash accumulation for a high cash flow market vs. a high appreciation market.

That's pretty sharp because that cuts right past politics and to a core dissatisfaction people have been feeling for quite sometime....and it plays the guilt button which, as Obama illustrated, is quite effective.The second thing she did, which was brilliant, was the same week that Obama announced he was coming into town to campaign for Coons - she had a rally called "Democrats for O'Donnell" and had as her featured speakers LOCAL Democrat leaders who were dissatisfied with what Washington has been up to lately.

Bryan makes a very good point in that many of the relationships used to support the economic theories are false, that the inter-relationships of economic indicators and indexes are incorrectly applied and illustrated by those with an agenda.

The low price of this property and probably low mortgage payment the current owner couldn't meet, further illustrates the money issues they have.Unless this property is in a very LL friendly jurisdiction and you can get an eviction quickly, then I'd make absolutely certain the place is empty before closing.

If you could illustrate it in $ terms that would be greatly appreciated.Regards

Joe and Dave, your posts illustrate what I was talking about re: lack of passivity in real estate.