A lot of folks are taking advantage of the recent historic appreciation levels, cashing out, and rolling into new investments.   

When you make decisions to invest based on sound facts analyzed by your own reliable methods, that's taking a calculated risk.I have a mortgage on my home because the borrowed money is super cheap as measured by historical borrowing costs.

Interestingly enough I have a rehab- My latest rehab is a house built in 1912 in a historic neighborhood.

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?

It simply sets the stage for the future defense of acceptance by the note holder later down the road.I have to tell you all that it is very frustrating to have some put out bad advice, incorrect information and opinions that are written in just a few words or short paragraphs and then requires endless explanation as to why such is the case, especially when those who do so insist on such positions simply to save face and discredit anyone correcting the material.Yes, these are old transactions, THERE IS NOTHING NEW IN REAL ESTATE as far as stratigies go, they are all the basic transactions tied to other transactional methods and MARKETED AS NEW.Wraps, trading equities or rights and assuming debts of others historically goes back to the Samaritans, now that I read in a test book long ago, I do not have a referrence for you, but if you read much about historical financing you can probably buy that, I do.

I own an urban area historic loft building which is beautifully maintained close to the local arts district and a thriving university commanding rents of $2000.00 per unit.

With my 24% historical total return, real estate will almost certainly be a better investment over my next 34 years, even factoring the 50% haircut I took to get the money. 

Both Colton and Rialto have a lot of historic homes that are near tear down status and are the small 2 bed 1 bath on a small lot which isn’t today’s modern preferred floorplan so might be tough to rent out and compete with an apartment.

Historically, the other unit rents for $650 per month and the third (larger) rents for $1200 per month for a total potential of $2600 per month. 

just the last year we began listing a property in a historic area on Air BnB.We also listed on VRBO.