@Rebecca E.Are you just holding cash, buying bonds, putting cash in ETF?

They don't include housing (nor stocks and bonds) nor insurance in the CPI, which I think makes inflation look better than it is.

It doesn't matter if you're the homeowner and you do less than three a year, you controlling the construction process for a product that will be sold to a new buyer, and the state wants you to have a bond and insurance to protect that new buyer if you screw it up. 

I like to look at tax foreclosures as super profitable short-term bond investments rather than buying property since most do redeem.

It was like pulling teeth just getting them to recommend someone to insure the property. 

Events will ensure fun culture, bonding among roommates, and ultimately less turnover.7.

As a newbie I would not suggest this be the type of collateral you cut your teeth on.  

As long as there are a ton less savvy or under-educated investors (be it stocks, bonds, RE etc), the markets will be overly tilted to GPs that never really are at risk to lose any capital, even in a crap deal.

This is a great question, and I admit I hadn't really thought of real estate like this, even though people frequently talk about appropriate strategies for stocks and bonds as you age.

Sadly, 10K in CO wouldn't get me very far if I had 10K to invest in RE so I'd probably seek out different markets where the 10k has more teeth.