We focus on all the negative what-if's, and try to chart a course of only safe, positive potential for our kids, and advise to such. 

@Erin Wilks you can find amortization charts easily on the net.

Precisely.

This is the precise thinking that I think if tagged in with your approach can lead to quicker identification of markets of interest- leading to a resulting deep dive on what the market may do in that area.

Make sure you have an Operating Agreementc) Make sure you maintain everything precisely to the Operating Agreementc) Make sure your attorney will defend your LLC in courtd) Make sure you thoroughly understand what you are doing and what it protects and what it doesn't protect e) Make sure you understand how to direct your attorney in a lawsuit in the event you need all of that faulty LLC armorf) You AND your LLC will be named in the lawsuit to see if you followed the above.Why not get an umbrella insurance policy and get the same protection for far less hassle.

One of my favorite charts is one put out by the St Louis Fed.

“I can look at my long-term 25-year charts and they tell me when to buy and sell and they’re flashing orange right now,” Kiesel, 52, said during an interview at Pimco’s Newport Beach, California, headquarters.

Lot's of charts and graphs and data available, but those are just leading indicators.

Precisely the same can be said of this bubbly real estate environment.  

Louis Fed (a very good source of long-term data) chart to show the 'disconnect' between housing (blue line) and CPI.