I don’t buy the 12% year after year inflation returns in the general case. If you were really able to get real estate returns like that with such a simple method, no one would even bother with stocks or bonds. A very savvy investor might be able to do this with selected properties, but he’d have to be really sharp to beat the market by such a wide margin. It is true that there will always be money to be made in real estate, it just rubs me the wrong way when people post about their 15% annual returns and say that everyone else is a clown for not being able to achieve the same thing.
