They don't help with predicting future growth.  

And I do agree the hassles of residential will help you learn the ropes of real estate and I predict will also make you want to do commercial even more!

https://www.wsj.com/articles/w...I have been predicting a steep drop in home prices on my Saturday morning BP shows.

Reality can be inconvenient, the "rules" make this business so much more predictable.  

For a simpleton like me, it's a bit daunting to try to predict how things will go. 

Give us your predictions on when - date and, if you are so bold, time - when the 1,000,000 post will occur.

-Appreciation rates - This is hard to predict.

On the upside paying attention to those markets you can predict the swings fairly accurately.

An old thread revived and my old predictions are out in the open.

Predicting how much a tenant will pay, how much in tenant improvements will be needed, and how long the space will stay vacant before finding that new tenant is speculation when you're talking about a lease that won't be signed until 2020.I know a guy who owns part or all of about 90 retail projects.