I think it devalues the property slightly.

There are too many situations and occurrences in life to devalue the service you can provide to help individuals. 

Which devalued the Property, also rented to family so Subsidized rent on occasion, a lot of times under Mortgage rate so actual Loss in Money.

- Using 25% down payment, I can grab a few quarter million SFRs to put tenants in and hedge against dollar devaluation while benefiting from tax shield etc...* Commercial ?

Our money is taken, our money is devalued on purpose, our money is wasted, our money is spent in advance before it is even collected.

That being said larger multi family deals operated professionally have one of the best risk adjust returns of any asset class.If you put your money in a bank you absolutely will loose purchasing power via devaluation of the dollar. 

Most of what they spend their money on will inevitably devalue.

OR will they at least hold their value and be SELLABLE at the original purchase price (the currently heavily devalued pricing) in ~5-10 years?

I'm just talking money here, not warm and fuzzy feelings.When you add to this the devaluation of our dollars and the difficulty to borrow from lending institutions, there is simply less real wealth to go around. 40 years ago, 1 mil was a great goal-with $.25.9 per gallon of gas, $.18 Mcdonalds burgers and wonderful homes for 45K.

Precious metals.. government spending is out of control devaluing the dollar, until it is reigned in (haha) there is no stopping Gold, Silver..