The point of hedging against inflation is also a good one.

As every warning in every stock investment prospectus says past performance doesn’t guarantee future performance… Barring a pandemic, a stock market crash, a world war, massive inflation or deflation it would still be a guess.

Also I would think ADR improves over time through inflation alone, so in five years you're probably cash flowing fine.

Unemployment at 3.5%, inflation trending down, fed likely pausing hikes after next meeting, mortgage rates falling, foreclosures essentially non existent, seeing a lot more houses go under contract in just the past few weeks, etc.  

Graphs for housing prices vs inflation and historic price increases are readily available for calculating house values, but I rarely see information like this for rent prices.Exactly how do you go about trying to predict rent changes?

Lastly, we almost certainly have so high inflation coming our way in the not too distant future.

This is true even if your agreements are solid and tight.If interest rates rise 5% or so with heightened inflation I also say the likelihood of notes getting called goes up orders of magnitude.

The risk of not selling and waiting for further depreciation and/or hyper-inflation are possibly a much greater risk.If the buyers are willing to hold title in the name of a trust, then a trust could be set up and the likelihood of the bank picking up the transfer is reduced even further.

I am not a finance major but the stock index seems artificially inflated by an ok economy based on fictitious unemployment and inflation numbers and artificially held low interest rates.

@Jeff CopelandI think there are two issues right now1: inventory is pretty low right now in St Pete and so many people are attached to the shiny object of St Pete which is inflating even the rehab houses.2: a lot of good whole sellers have big buyers which they go to first before advertising to other investors.