You buy the property, you give the tenant notice of a pending increase, they pack up and leave, then you spruce it up and rent it at market rate so it's a profitable investment.When egg prices double, do you think the local grocer cries in his coffee every morning about how inflation is impacting his customers?

Federal debt and fear of hyper inflation has homeowners in a gridlock.

Then if you do sell later and you pay the tax, you are paying it with "future dollars" which are worth LESS because of all the inflation that occurred in the interim. 2.

The other options you are playing with fire as using a HELOC that is paying interest is essentially buying with 100% financing.Having no skin in the game has always been a high risk strategy and people were able to get away with it the past few years due to the money supply and inflation but I would not use that as the measuring stick.

Inflation isn't dead; I think the Fed capitulated.  

I am sure most real estate investors are not even familiar with what I am talking about, but the economy is a global economy and Multifamily investing is a tiny component too things and how immigration, inflation and other factors are handled will also have significant impacts that we just have no idea. 

In the long run direct ownership is working because we invest in dis-inflation way. 

Trying to protect their cash from inflation or government appropriation. 

Further research, I discovered lender and borrower (seller) negotiated an inflated payoff, hints why lender didn’t send $ back because they now knew they’d be out the extra money since their borrower had already spent most of those funds.

I’m expecting inflation to come storming back end of next year.