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.

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.

I've been trying to learn the best way to track the next possible downturn and it sounds like from the experts it's going to be a huge devaluation of our currency instead of another subprime loan debacle. 

It needs a ton of work, my worthless mother has been staying in that house doing drugs and not paying rent and devaluing the property for several years now...

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

What you are seeing is a de-valuation of the dollar.When gold was around $1000 i made a bet with a friend that it would hit $1500 before it would go back to $750.

Wondering if anyone has watched Porter Stansberry's video on Youtube or at his website www.endofamerica15.com. if so what are your thoughts on his predictions of whats to become of our government and the devaluation of the dollar.

Contamination on the property devalues it..

If they had their own currency, and their bonds were denominated in their currency, they could devalue the currency.

If you can work a country's devaluation of real estate and currency at the same time you are doing quite well.One person's "worse" is another persons "better" and it's going to get "worse/better" before it gets "better/worse".