That analogy is not correct as real estate can be rented forever and mineral rights may never pay a dime and even if it contains oil, gas and other hydrocarbons, it will eventually run dry. I have some minerals I’d love to sell to the people on here that say never sell or that you’re not smart to ever sell but I bet they wouldn’t buy. They probably didn’t pay a dime for what they have, they probably were given it for free through inheritance and never had to put their money where their mouth is. Those who didn’t sell their Barnett minerals when offers were to the moon and natural gas prices were $12 and headed higher made a foolish mistake. Offers, appraisals, whatever metrics one uses to value net worth of an item are but a fraction of what they were on those minerals. To have said never sell your Nasdaq tech stocks back in the year 2000 was also very foolish, here 12 years later it is still down almost 50%. Those who never sold their real estate and instead kept buying more in Vegas or Detroit Michigan or other parts of the country where housing prices are now down 54% like I read this morning on Yahoo were also fools. Never sell is for fools. There are no absolutes. No one can predict the future nor time the markets every time so I don’t see how these people can say they know and it is never sell.
Sorry guys, no offence meant, just being real and factual.