My wife is currently in school (part of our $30K) and will be a teacher once she graduates (if she can find a job) which will net us an extra $25K or so which we will immediately put towards our investments as we a very mindful of lifestyle inflation.

To make a long story short, I took his advice and immediately eliminated that strategy from my business system (before it even took place)...Oddly enough, I begin reading a book on wholesaling and the author highly recommends this strategy, which the author refers to as "PROFIT STACKING."

I am a believer that the market will come back, probably when inflation finally pops up (as a result of all the deficit spending).

Some lenders won't make loans for people to buy flipped property; they feel the value is inflated.

This story has some odd elements.

Inflation projection is lowered.

http://moneycentral.msn.com/personal-finance/calculators/retirement_income_calculator/home.aspx#Results But I see that it also has 3% rate of inflation per year so maybe that makes the difference.

Again, I like median price homes, but they can't be median price homes in OVER-INFLATED areas, or you still lose, imo.

So, the crazy thing is that both he and I got lazy and fell far behind on rental payments so I haven't paid anything in 3 years--I know this is odd but please read on.

HOWEVER, that does not mean that interest rates won't rise with inflation coming.