Twenty years ago I might have guessed that natural gas or bio-diesel cars might have replaced a lot of our gasoline cars by now since peak oil seemed like a sure thing.

You have no way to force appreciation or hopes for natural appreciation; de-leveraging is minimal.

eg, would the forced appreciation nature of the lease option not be considered capital gains?

The hipocritical nature of all the replies on this post astounds me.

@Marcel Lorincz , Each situation needs to be carefully evaluated, but here is the general guideline:The debt proceeds are directly traced to a specific expenditure, and the related interest expense is classified based on the nature of that expenditure.

It is part of the natural economic cleansing process.

The same type of preparation is recommended for natural (hurricanes, earthquakes) and man-made disasters.The police will perform a courtesy welfare check.

And furthermore, if that is even a path I would travel, instead of just finding several great sponsors and expand more into passive investing, instead of my natural inclination to want to be hands on. 

I'm in South Carolina which has no state minimum wage and yet wages are growing naturally as businesses are moving into our state. 

I work for a local multi inspector firm but been thinking about seeing if I can set up an Investor Inspection that is designed to focus on just the big items (roof, HVAC, electrical, ect.) and not included smaller issues like plaster cracks, missing caulk, or things of more trivial nature that I feel most investors aren't to worried about but might concern someone buying their first home.