From there likely a short spike due to the market being more reserved as the policy starts to take hold and lenders opting to raise rates a bit to be on the safe side while the policy settles itself in the new economic environment.

You could make 5% in another investment but if energy prices spike 20% next year the solar panels have done you a great service by taking that inflation risk away.

It sounds like nothing has fundamentally changed but you are feeling frustrated with capex spikes and a bad tenant.

Due to a significant spike in demand, housing prices have skyrocketed, making it nearly impossible in some areas of the city to find solid returns as a real estate investor.

These are all reasons to believe the neighborhoods that experienced the largest spike in new housing will effectively absorb the supply that was built in recent years.

If 8 years if rates have spiked and you have a loan in the low 5s, that will have more value than a house that has to be financed at higher rates. 

It might take a few years for their pay to compensate somewhat for a spike in inflation. 4.

In addition, just because rents spike doesn't mean your tenant received a comparable bump in pay.

Electricity can also spike in the summer with A/C.

He would try and sell that original loan to investors so they could also fund the draws but he got caught in interest rate spikes and left a lot of people high and dry as he was writing loans at lower rates and when rates spiked the loans were worth a lot less.