After that it plateaus and cash flow is the majority of your wealth creation.

With this in mind, I think best case scenario is that our rental market plateaus for the remainder of the year as we re-stabilize which is a huge departure from the 5-6% rent growth previously forecast for our market in 2020.On the positive side, the industry has been forced to depend on virtual leasing which is already yielding surprisingly positive results.

When you know your "WHY" you will have the drive to push you past the plateaus of investing when things get dull or hard.2.)

I would want to retire if that also meant my RE business plateaus.

. - There are climbs, and there are plateaus.  

Lastly, location plays a big part in appreciation and making sure you weather the storm in/when the market plateaus or takes a dip.  

Everyone told us that real estate was high and might not keep going up, but real estate doesn't go down it just plateaus.

I'm great at taking care of people....but there comes a point where you reach a level of mastery and the learning plateaus. 

Even if the market plateaus (doesn't fall) it's far from inconceivable that you'd have to come out-of-pocket to see if you just looked at a 3 year time frame.  

Note each of these local plateaus get eclipsed as some point in the future.If your daughter purchases now, she should not be expecting the appreciation of the last almost 10 years.