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Strategies & Market Trends : The Residential Real Estate Crash Index -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Tradelite who wrote (1335)	1/11/2002 12:58:31 PM
From: LLCF	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 306849

<No, it's probably the only such occurance that you have been alive to observe. Spikes have happened time and time again throughout history....> As have sell offs and flat markets..... again check out prices in Syracuse and Toledo over the past 100 years. <but not in your lifetime. > Well, then it's not worth talking about IMO. Look, do whatever you want... I'm not saying home ownership isn't great, I have two of 'em. Just throwing in a little colour to a one dimensional discussion. In closing I will say this... owning a home and renting it out is no great shakes IMO, lot's of brain damage... I would make sure I'm stealing it. I would say another year and one could consider it... if you're not buying if from a bank or on the courthouse steps then forget it. JMO DAK