Thankfully here in IL its against state law for any city to enact rent control.

Decontrolling rent-controlled units in NYC is a pain, especially after the 2019 law changes.

I want to have something I can pass down to my kids and something that I control.

I lived in LA for a decade and we have many friends, family, clients and community members suffering and send our sincerest condolences to all of those experiencing and affected this tragedy. 

FNMA took total control over these entities.

I have just signed up for Launch Control and its getting frustrating. 

If I put all of my eggs in one basket (Florida in this case), paid off property and a hurricane blows everything away, FEMA is nowhere to be found and the insurance companies take years to pay what little claims they actually do pay, I suffer through it in a blown out house.

Everyone is suffering because of the damage this company has created and continues to especially those who invested in properties.

So % vs % on borrowed funds for investing, trading on margin is much more expensive, WAY higher risk, AND now even MORE loss of control because when these things out of your control happen you have no control for the status of those "assets". 

if you look at forced appreciation you can do that as a strategy but you are still limited by market supply, market economics, property ages you can't control. the strategy we do Is build to rent development where you build an asset 25% below market through infill site selection, land entitlement which boosts property values, as well as refinance once the property is stabilized. new construction you can't build something unless it appraises 25% below market anyways. so I think the majority of biggerpockets is focused on the strategy you mentioned but part of what I try to do is show other strategies that involve land, new construction, build to rent development, land development, land entitlements, smart asset design of smaller floor plates, infill locations where equity and values are higher, etc. we do this in Columbus Ohio.