- Using 25% down payment, I can grab a few quarter million SFRs to put tenants in and hedge against dollar devaluation while benefiting from tax shield etc...* Commercial ?

Our money is taken, our money is devalued on purpose, our money is wasted, our money is spent in advance before it is even collected.

That being said larger multi family deals operated professionally have one of the best risk adjust returns of any asset class.If you put your money in a bank you absolutely will loose purchasing power via devaluation of the dollar. 

Most of what they spend their money on will inevitably devalue.

OR will they at least hold their value and be SELLABLE at the original purchase price (the currently heavily devalued pricing) in ~5-10 years?

I'm just talking money here, not warm and fuzzy feelings.When you add to this the devaluation of our dollars and the difficulty to borrow from lending institutions, there is simply less real wealth to go around. 40 years ago, 1 mil was a great goal-with $.25.9 per gallon of gas, $.18 Mcdonalds burgers and wonderful homes for 45K.

Precious metals.. government spending is out of control devaluing the dollar, until it is reigned in (haha) there is no stopping Gold, Silver..

@George: The logic most use in general and why you see gold run like it has is debt and money printing devalues the dollar.

We didn't do anything garish that would de-value other houses in the neighborhood.Help!

I'm sure someone paid a lot of money for these modifications and I would hate to devaluate the property.