RSMeans publishes an annual Construction Cost Data manual which can give you a good idea also, its around $200.

I just finished reading the Bigger Pockets published book, “Set For Life” by Scott Trench.

That means rent checks must be made payable to your IRA (usually something like XYZ Trust Company Account zzz FBO Your Name), and must go into the acccount.

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Home depot will publish prices for many installs such as ceiling fan, blinds for your whole house, some of the flooring etc.

The landlord shall not commingle such moneys with any other funds of the landlord or hypothecate, pledge, or in any other way make use of such moneys until such moneys are actually due the landlord;(b) Hold the total amount of such money in a separate interest-bearing account in a Florida banking institution for the benefit of the tenant or tenants, in which case the tenant shall receive and collect interest in an amount of at least 75 percent of the annualized average interest rate payable on such account or interest at the rate of 5 percent per year, simple interest, whichever the landlord elects.

Then, I became a regular writer having my publicity people get my articles published in the legal papers. 

:)My state, at least, doesn't have any requirements about meetings or publishing minutes, so I don't have any annual requirements in terms for formalities for my LLCs.

Appreciation is not the play for the foreseeable future... at least in my opinion.As for inflation, I don't pay attention to the government published numbers because we are not measuring inflation the same way we were 30 years ago.

Housing Crash Basically doom and gloom article explaining a negative side of real estate, thought this would have been shortly after the crash in 2007/2008 but looks like it was recently published.