I bet the property they sold devalued by 30 to 40% while the one they bought in PDX went up at least 20% the last 8 years as its been full this whole time and rents have incrased by 20 to 30% since they bought it.

Your tenant is paying off the mortgage on the property and you're paying it off with devalued money with the help of inflation.

If you are subsidising a tenants rent you are not only losing income, the sole purpose of investing, you are also devaluing your property by 10s of thousands of dollars.

Prices started to soften this summer.If you're looking for "highly volatile," I suggest to look into locations that experienced drastic devaluations in 2008-2011, e.g.

There are millions and millions, tens of millions, hundreds of millions of dollars sitting in IRA accounts being devalued by inflation and fees and the owners of those accounts are doing nothing with that cash.

Absolutely everyone in this country will see a drop in their quality of life in a dollar devaluation stage.

If inflation is high, your cash is devaluing while a high quality asset keeps up with inflation.

What kind of steps would yall take to maximize financial possibilities (ie buying and sellling), especially since I don't want to buy a house at the top of the market and have it devalue in a few years. 

My view is that the government relies on inflation to devalue the real costs of their borrowing by confiscating value from anything denominated in dollars.

so theres been a lot of talk about the devaluating dollar , china pulling out of the us bond market and a whole array of fear inducing headlines slipped in just below justin beiber and bristal palin updates.