I hope to do a bit better, but diversification of inflation and interest rate risk combined with bondlike income is sufficient for my risk profile.BTW I also "hope" my stock portfolio will do better than 8%... 1928-2014 S&P returns did; 2005 -2014 didn't. http://pages.stern.nyu.edu/~adamodar/New_Home_Page/datafile/histretSP.html and a random sampling of 30 year expected returns look worse from this point (even including small cap, REIT, emerging)In summary, return is about work, skill and risk.

Back in the early 80s inflation was at 14%!

The price he suggested was the price he claimed my property was worth and he even had a BPO with a list of properties that justified his inflated price but first, I had to spend $1800.00 on making the property sale ready.

The company is called Point (https://point.com), definitely an interesting look at betting on inflation from what i understand.

Sure inflation happens and dollars become slowly less valuable, but it is predictable.

Going up to $15/hr by 2020Rents going up, property values going up.I would guess between 50% and 100% appreciation due to inflation in the area.

and all new construction is painted in flat sheen, except in bathrooms.

As you might know, the prices were inflated here so I think they are coming back to where they should have been.

How do you know that the property manager is not inflating the quotes and getting kickbacks under the table?

He likes linear markets as opposed to cyclical markets and he uses debt as a hedge against inflation.