IMO, Land appreciation is always speculative even when you know there are projects that may increase the value.

First I would suggest that you do not speculate in a public forum about whether some of the damage could have been caused by repeated seepage of water. 

Some of them speculate by saying no large amount of new inventory will hit the streets until AFTER the elections.What is your thought on this?

I don't recommend new investors break the rule because they will most likely go over on rehab costs & over speculate on sell price.

Of course this involves speculating on future inflation, however holding debt is definitely a strong strategy in the near term.

Our strategy is based solely on making sure the profit is made at the time of purchase and not on speculative appreciation months or years down the road.

Pure speculation there, obviously this was an opportunity to expand on your text book experiences, I don't really agree with all you mentioned, but I have no idea why you mentioned me for this speculation.

Because this money is coming out of a portfolio of highly speculative mining stocks that redefine 'volatile' I'm not going to get choked up if I lose money here and there. $80k swings in a matter of days is not uncommon in this basket of stocks so losing money in any reallocation of these funds is acceptable as long as the degree of risk is rewarded over time.

They don't have any commitment from a tenant...so the rates are highly speculative...Matt, Nathan...thanks for your thoughts too....ive told them to give me a call when they have a tenant.thanks again everybody

And I mentioned initially, selecting cash or financing the deal depends on her needs which have not been mentioned, so we are speculating, but your ascertion was taking cash would be better, my reply is not always