However, this will decrease your tax basis in the property and any amount you deduct as depreciation will be taxable at the 25% capital gains rate for real estate when you sell the property (assuming you do not take a loss on the sale).As has been mentioned already, taxes are a tricky topic and the laws change all the time.

Focusing on paying down the principal, means you are building equity in the property and every bit of equity you gain, that equity decreases the total return the equity is providing you. 

Suppose rents increase at 2%/Yr over the next 30 years, inflation averages 4%/Yr, and your current total rental income is $10,000/Mo, here’s what happens to that income in today’s dollars:In 10: years $8,235 (a 17.65% decrease in buying power)In 20. years: $6,782 (a 32.18% decrease)In 30 years: $5,585 (a 44.15% decrease)So even though your rent increases to $12,190 ($10,000 x (1 + 2%)^10) after 10 years, inflation erodes its value to the equivalent of $8,235 today.

It requires perpetual increase in scarcity to hold incentive to use and decrease in use instantly reflects in decrease in value, thus empowering more exit, making value drop more, making more flight out, round n round it goes into the ground. 

It looks like it stopped decreasing in population and even started to increase a little.

Airbnb does punish those going against their grain with decreased visibility.3.

The appreciation historically been too high to suggest an unleveraged purchase as the return decreases.  

It decrease property values if you're nearby. 

I can't decrease it, but I can avoid adding to it. 

Sellers received 91.6% of their list price in Austin, down from 92.3% last year, while metro sellers averaged 92.3%, a decrease from 93.3% in 2024.Here are the August 2025 stats for Austin and the greater metro:What if I’m a buyer?