To be honest I think all markets are now saturated with investors due to the information explosion over the past ten years and you will just need to become a better investor in order to succeed.

Things went well for us the first few years, but the severity of the Great Recession (and explosion of the housing bubble) proved to great. 

It started with all the heavy drug use after the explosion of Crack in Tampa.

Perhaps the scariest thing would be a natural gas explosion with loss of life.

My property must have an arrangement with the local plumbers union that any leaks or boiler explosions will happen on Sunday.

Reminds me of this unfortunate indecent: https://www.foxnews.com/story/nyc-dr-sent-e-mail-rant-to-ex-wife-before-explosion-destroyed-town-house

Two options... refinance and pull out the cash due to the explosive land value to finance your addition.Other option... sell... move into a new home and potentially not have a mortgage.Not having a mortgage... and going debt free could drastically change your family's life for the better, or having cash and successfully investing in other real estate... again could drastically change your life for the better.Good problems to have.

Well, I've been living in this house for quite a year now, and the Landlord is always being disrespectful with us and always taking too much to fix things in this 10 years old house that is falling in peaces , last week our a.c broke, it wasn't getting cold, so we asked him and only 4 days later someone came to "help", and the a.c. was working again for 2 days, and then it got it broke (the air made an explosion sound and there was smoke coming out of my son's bedroom air ventilation) so we turned the a.c. off and open the windows so the burning smell would go away and then we called the Landlord and told him about what happened and that we need it him to call  someone to fix it or something, anything.

The other help we've had over the last decade was cheap oil and shale, which put a little life into our economy.But overall, if inflation worked the way you seem to think it does, we would have seen some explosive inflation these past few months. 

I’m an investor in the west valley and can attest to the explosive growth in that area over the past few years and there is no end in sight.