Without answering for scha9799, here's my 2c.
I see this a lot. Investors hang on and hang on biting their nails and wringing their hands for years holding some neg. geared property. Then they get to the end of their emotional rope and sell. 2 years later the price doubles.
The guy who...
^ ^ that's exactly right. In any 7-12 year cycle you can expect long flat periods. The big gains are probably in only 2-3 years of that cycle and can be 40-50% pa at times.
Your issue (and everybody else's really) is that you don't know when those periods of big gains will be. Additionally...
