It's pretty simple math and when you start to add compounding over 10 or 20 years the numbers get much bigger.That said... there is something to be said for financial independence. 

  If you have 30,000 and can compound it at a annual rate of 10% per year for 118.19 months you will have a little over 80,000. 

Amazing what compound interest can do, eh?

I'm sure others will have more specific feedback, but if you are not putting your own cash into it and are making renovations that add value, it seems like a defensible deal to me!

So compounded over 27 years, the appreciation rate is more like 4.4%.  

The amount of corporate chaos and nonsense seems to be compounding year after year.

I pay a little extra for audit defense in case I’m ever audited.

He said insurance is your best defense.

Here is mine https://www.biggerpockets.com/blogs/3-reiskills-an...You might want to emulate that, or @Brian Burke s or @J ScottRenatus is tiresome and not fun and not valuable, from your posts anyway.You not winning any followers by being defensive or crying slander or libel.You win followers by helping people with real value.

First line of defense will always be good management of your property.