Contemplate letting your house rot, fester, and fall then tell us that such deterioration is immaterial to the value of your holding relative to other, well-maintained properties.

I'm quite sure you're misunderstanding the purpose of this conversation and thread. When people talk about housing prices spiking, and that not being included in inflation, they're pretty much exclusively talking about _land_. To the extent that the structure itself gets more expensive, that's captured in increases in maintenance and construction costs, both of which are captured in inflation measures.

It's utterly beyond me how you could interpret my comment as anything close to "you shouldn't maintain structures". Please make an effort to fully understand a comment in the context of the broader conversation before posting gibberish.